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... attempted to give English poetry elevation and dignity . The early Caelica poems show a concern with the resources of oratory , rhetoric and ornamentation , but Greville's model is rather Sidney's attempt to create an improved plain ...
... attempted to give English poetry elevation and dignity . The early Caelica poems show a concern with the resources of oratory , rhetoric and ornamentation , but Greville's model is rather Sidney's attempt to create an improved plain ...
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... attempt at blending the heroic with pathetic tragedy , Darius ( 1688 ) , a mixture of the heroic with the new chaste classical tragedy in Regulus ( 1692 ) , and a sentimentalised , moralistic comedy , The Married Beau ( 1694 ) . The ...
... attempt at blending the heroic with pathetic tragedy , Darius ( 1688 ) , a mixture of the heroic with the new chaste classical tragedy in Regulus ( 1692 ) , and a sentimentalised , moralistic comedy , The Married Beau ( 1694 ) . The ...
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... attempt to revive the heroic play in blank verse with a touch of pathos . Cibber's Xerxes ( 1699 ) and The Tragical ... attempting to make it more classic , stoic , pathetic , and illustrative of justice , but without much success . III ...
... attempt to revive the heroic play in blank verse with a touch of pathos . Cibber's Xerxes ( 1699 ) and The Tragical ... attempting to make it more classic , stoic , pathetic , and illustrative of justice , but without much success . III ...
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