Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeHeritage Press, 1943 - 214 pages |
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... English feet and English lines ; —although in no work with which I am acquainted are these feet correctly given or these lines detailed in anything like their full extent . Yet what has been mentioned is all- if we except the occasional ...
... English feet and English lines ; —although in no work with which I am acquainted are these feet correctly given or these lines detailed in anything like their full extent . Yet what has been mentioned is all- if we except the occasional ...
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... English grammar ? " our obvious answer is : " The art of speaking and writing the English language correctly , " - that is to say , we must use the precise words employed as the definition of English grammar itself . But the object to ...
... English grammar ? " our obvious answer is : " The art of speaking and writing the English language correctly , " - that is to say , we must use the precise words employed as the definition of English grammar itself . But the object to ...
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Edgar Allan Poe Louis Untermeyer. " English hexameters on the model of the Greek . ” The only difficulty was that ( even leaving out of question the melodious masses of vowels ) these gentlemen never could get their English hexameters to ...
Edgar Allan Poe Louis Untermeyer. " English hexameters on the model of the Greek . ” The only difficulty was that ( even leaving out of question the melodious masses of vowels ) these gentlemen never could get their English hexameters to ...
Contents
The Editors Commentary | 2 |
Spirits of the Dead | 14 |
A Dream | 22 |
Copyright | |
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