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" The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive... "
The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Page 138
by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
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Patrick Procktor: Prints 1959-1985

Patrick Procktor - 1985 - 154 pages
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The Victorian Poet: Poetics and Persona

Joseph Bristow - 1987 - 208 pages
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English Poetry: A Poetic Record from Chaucer to Yeats

David Hopkins - 1990 - 269 pages
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English Poetry: A Poetic Record from Chaucer to Yeats

David Hopkins - 1990 - 296 pages
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Crossing the Border: Essays on Scottish Literature

Edwin Morgan - 1990 - 344 pages
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The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets: Poetic Responses to English ...

David Hopkins - 1994 - 275 pages
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Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary Fiction

Cesareo Bandera - 2010 - 333 pages
...unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known .. . they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression" (296). The same argument had been used by Tasso in his Discourses on the Heroic Poem: The argument...
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The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson

Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 pages
...relation of the human soul to God. The words of scripture, the work of God, comes to us unadorned and "it can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression" (Life of Watts). Religious effusion is to "be felt rather than expressed," and the "ideas of Christian...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins in Wales

Norman White - 1998 - 184 pages
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The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study

John Richard Watson - 1999 - 565 pages
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