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Poetic diction

Note 108 — Chapter IV · LATINISM IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY

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One of the most noteworthy is the constant employment of adjectives as adverbs in opposition (e.g., “the grand etherial bow, Shoots up immense”) a device used both by Milton and Pope, but by neither with anything like the freedom seen in “The Seasons.”

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