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| | §27. The "Spectator" Group: John Philips; Broome and Fenton; Edmund (Rag) Smith; Hughes. VI. Lesser ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | John Philips, long before Thomson, and with hardly any predecessors except Roscommon, reintroduced blank verse, the very Trojan horse of the citadel of the couplet. |
 | | John Philips, almost exactly a contemporary of Ambrose so far as birth went, was an Oxford man of the Christ Church set noteworthy at the junction of the centuries, and a tory; while Ambrose was of St. Johns college, Cambridge, and a whig. |
 | | Both, but especially Broome, exhibit, in their blank verse, that fatal tendency to stiff and stopped central pauses which was to reach its height in Glover. |
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