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Tag: Victorians

77. (R.H. Hutton)

One of the chief differences between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century voices of critical prose is that the former wrote for the … More

Carlyle, Dickens, George Eliot, Julia Wedgwood, Literary Criticism, Matthew Arnold, R.H. Hutton, Tennyson, Victorian Literature, Victorian Poetry, Victorians

76. (Robert Burns)

“Now Burns loses prodigiously by translation.” Thus Hopkins in a letter to Robert Bridges. Though prejudiced against the Scots, Hopkins … More

Dialect, Dialect Poetry, Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Hopkins, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Robert Burns, Scots, Victorians
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