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To recommend classical propri- ety ' ; 69 but he wished them completed and adorned with the peculiar imaginative beauties of the ' dark ages, ' those "i, p. 147. «i, p. I. « If p . 2. "i, p. 133. "I, p. 2. • ii, pp. 324-5. 102 CLARISSA EINAKEE fictions which ' rouse and invigorate all the powers of imagination [and] store the fancy with those sublime and charming images, which true poetry best delights to dis- play. 7 70 The inevitable result of recognizing the relation between the classical an...d romantic sources of literature was con- tempt for pseudo-classicism, for those poets and critics who rejected the beauties of romance for the less natural per- fections approved by the classical and French theorists, who aped the ancients without knowing them and despised their own romantic ancestry. The greatest English poets, Warton perceived, were those who combined both elements in their poetry ; those who rejected either fell short of the highest rank. And therefore he perceived the loss to Eng- lish poetry when, after the decline of romance and allegory, ' a poetry succeeded, in which imagination gave way to correctness, sublimity of description to delicacy of senti- ment, and majestic imagery to conceit and epigram.
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