To men thus sick of the languid manner of their contemporaries ruggedness seemed a venial fault, or rather a positive merit.
In their hatred of meretricious ornament, and of what Cowper calls "creamy smoothness," they erred on the opposite side.
Their style was too austere, their versification too h...
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