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... perhaps more important to notice that the decades in question also produce new developments in literary culture , with the growth of political satire , the establishment of newspapers , and the remarkable output of con- troversial prose ...
... perhaps more important to notice that the decades in question also produce new developments in literary culture , with the growth of political satire , the establishment of newspapers , and the remarkable output of con- troversial prose ...
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... perhaps more accurately - one response to that scrutiny of society and the individual which is Jonson's main concern . He tends to extremes of optimism and pessimism and the poems show various combinations of these impulses , from the ...
... perhaps more accurately - one response to that scrutiny of society and the individual which is Jonson's main concern . He tends to extremes of optimism and pessimism and the poems show various combinations of these impulses , from the ...
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... perhaps , is what truly marks representative art . What Old- ham lacks is the radical doubt which will later lead to the closing paragraph of the final book of Pope's The Dunciad , in which all the local satire of contemporary society ...
... perhaps , is what truly marks representative art . What Old- ham lacks is the radical doubt which will later lead to the closing paragraph of the final book of Pope's The Dunciad , in which all the local satire of contemporary society ...
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