Eighteenth Century Poetry & ProseLouis Ignatius Bredvold Ronald Press Company, 1956 - 1274 pages The purpose os this volume is to provide representative selections from English prose and poetry of the eighteenth century for undergraduate courses in that period. In this second edition of the anthology the editors have expanded the contents considerably. Additions have been made from Addison, Pope, Swift, Young, Smart, Burke, and Reynolds, with Blake's comments. The extensive notes and introductions should assist the beginning student to understand the texts, but it is hoped that they will also lead him to explore further in the works listed in the bibliographies. |
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Page 133
... poet in Greece after the rules of that art laid down by Aristotle , nor in Rome after those by . Horace , which yet none of our mod- erns pretend to have outdone . Perhaps Theocritus and Lucan may be alleged against this assertion ; but ...
... poet in Greece after the rules of that art laid down by Aristotle , nor in Rome after those by . Horace , which yet none of our mod- erns pretend to have outdone . Perhaps Theocritus and Lucan may be alleged against this assertion ; but ...
Page 267
... poet writes . Homer and Virgil have formed their plans in this view . As Greece was a collection of many governments , who suffered very much among themselves , and gave the Persian emperor , who was their common enemy , many ad ...
... poet writes . Homer and Virgil have formed their plans in this view . As Greece was a collection of many governments , who suffered very much among themselves , and gave the Persian emperor , who was their common enemy , many ad ...
Page 397
... poets are ( upon a poet's word ) Of all mankind , the creatures most absurd : The season , when to come , and when to go , 380 To sing , or cease to sing , we never know ; And if we will recite nine hours in ten , You lose your patience ...
... poets are ( upon a poet's word ) Of all mankind , the creatures most absurd : The season , when to come , and when to go , 380 To sing , or cease to sing , we never know ; And if we will recite nine hours in ten , You lose your patience ...
Contents
SAMUEL BUTLER | 1 |
A Bumpkin or CountrySquire | 11 |
JOHN WILMOT EARL OF ROCHESTER | 31 |
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