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... century itself , the poetry of that century being very genre - conscious . But , of course , it needs to be remembered that the divisions used here are far from absolute . Satire and mock - heroic overlap ; poetry of place and poetry of ...
... century itself , the poetry of that century being very genre - conscious . But , of course , it needs to be remembered that the divisions used here are far from absolute . Satire and mock - heroic overlap ; poetry of place and poetry of ...
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... century poetry obviously reflects fears and actualities of that century , while the location of the theme in time past parallels social concern with what the record of the past may be felt to show and suggest about present concerns and ...
... century poetry obviously reflects fears and actualities of that century , while the location of the theme in time past parallels social concern with what the record of the past may be felt to show and suggest about present concerns and ...
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... century who conveys this feeling for specific rural place . Drayton has something of it , but his response is more dispersed than Cotton's , and although Cotton has not the same stress as Jonson upon the values of the particular as ...
... century who conveys this feeling for specific rural place . Drayton has something of it , but his response is more dispersed than Cotton's , and although Cotton has not the same stress as Jonson upon the values of the particular as ...
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