Vulgar words in A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century (Page 1)
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They are not in the grand style; they are epic on a lower plane, ballad-epic, bastard-epic perhaps, but they are epic.
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This elegiac tone appears particularly in effusions like "Happiness," "The Sigh," "To a Young Ass," "To the Autumnal Moon," "Lines on an Autumnal Evening," "To the Nightingale"; in "Melancholy: A Fragment" and "Elegy; imitated from Akenside," both in the "Sibylline Leaves" (1797); and in numerous "lines," "monodies," "epitaphs," "odes," and "stanzas."
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W. L. Bowles an ass, and he determined to have some fun with him.
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There even runs a story that a certain professor of literature in an American college, being consulted about Spenser by one of his scholars, exclaimed impatiently, "Oh, damn Spenser!"
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The latter, Schlegel never understood... What increased Schlegel's reputation still more was the sensation which he excited in France, where he also attacked the literary authorities of the French,... showed the French that their whole classical literature was worthless, that Molière was a buffoon and no poet, that Racine likewise was of no account... that the French are the most prosaic people of the world, and that there is no poetry in France."
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But the author is forced to confess that the case is not much better in Catholic countries, where stained windows have been displaced by white panes, frescoed ceilings covered with a yellow wash, and the "bastard pagan style" introduced among the venerable sanctities of old religion.