Some Observations on Eighteenth Century Poetry Javier Garrit Hernández ¡Doña Glo-ria

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Some Observations on Eighteenth Century Poetry Javier Garrit Hernández ¡Doña Glo-riaSome Observations on Eighteenth Century Poetry This study of the poetry of the eighteenth century is written with appropriate clarity, grace, and wit. It does not profess to offer a new estimate, although it does dispel the notions still found at times about the "poetic diction" of Pope and the distinction between "classical" and "romantic" in the poetry of the period. Pope, Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Thomson, and Burns are dealth with perceptively in