Poets of the English Language: Milton to GoldsmithWystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson Viking Press, 1950 |
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Page xxiii
... true to nature means to express what is enduring , essential , and comprehensible ; the accidental or irreg- ular is ugly and unnatural . There are two Causes of Beauty , natural and customary . Natural is from Geometry , consisting in ...
... true to nature means to express what is enduring , essential , and comprehensible ; the accidental or irreg- ular is ugly and unnatural . There are two Causes of Beauty , natural and customary . Natural is from Geometry , consisting in ...
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... true . I set ' em by the rule , and as they square Or deviate from undoubted doctrine there , This Oral fiction , that old Faith declare . ( Hind . ) The Council steered , it seems , a diff'rent course , They try'd the Scripture by ...
... true . I set ' em by the rule , and as they square Or deviate from undoubted doctrine there , This Oral fiction , that old Faith declare . ( Hind . ) The Council steered , it seems , a diff'rent course , They try'd the Scripture by ...
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... true genius is but rare , True Taste as seldom is the Critic's share ; Both must alike from Heav'n derive their light , These born to judge , as well as those to write . Let such teach others who themselves excel , And censure freely ...
... true genius is but rare , True Taste as seldom is the Critic's share ; Both must alike from Heav'n derive their light , These born to judge , as well as those to write . Let such teach others who themselves excel , And censure freely ...
Contents
Introduction | xiii |
General Principles | xxvi |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 1 |
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