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The Works of William Cowper

Note 644 — PART THE THIRD. (continued 2)

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Young's testimony in favour of blank verse is thus forcibly, though rather pompously expressed:—

"Blank verse is verse unfallen, uncursed; verse reclaimed, re-enthroned in the true language of the gods."

See Conjectures on Original Composition.

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