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Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects

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    In English literature: Poets and poetry after Pope

    William Collins’s Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects (1747), for instance, displays great technical ingenuity and a resonant insistence on the imagination and the passions as poetry’s true realm. The odes also mine vigorously the potentiality of personification as a medium for poetic expression. In “An…

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