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... poem ' Cooper's Hill ' ; here the Thames is celebrated as he ' Visits the world , and in his flying towers / Brings home to us , and makes both Indies ours ' . 10 Despite the currency of Denham's poem , Protectoral poets were determined ...
... poem ' Cooper's Hill ' ; here the Thames is celebrated as he ' Visits the world , and in his flying towers / Brings home to us , and makes both Indies ours ' . 10 Despite the currency of Denham's poem , Protectoral poets were determined ...
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... Poem ( 1655 ) .12 13 It was in this atmosphere of colonial expansion and international imperial rivalry , and in the same year as Annus Mirabilis , that Milton completed and published Paradise Lost . Although he had started com- posing ...
... Poem ( 1655 ) .12 13 It was in this atmosphere of colonial expansion and international imperial rivalry , and in the same year as Annus Mirabilis , that Milton completed and published Paradise Lost . Although he had started com- posing ...
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... poem in turn , through explicit allusion to Addison's The Campaign , repud- iates the imperial poetics of the recent past : ' For such [ empty glory ] in distant lands the Britons shine , / And stain with blood the Danube or the Rhine ...
... poem in turn , through explicit allusion to Addison's The Campaign , repud- iates the imperial poetics of the recent past : ' For such [ empty glory ] in distant lands the Britons shine , / And stain with blood the Danube or the Rhine ...
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