Front | Critics of A Song (Absent from thee) +NAME |
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Back | •“His songs are commonly smooth and easy; but have little nature and no sentiment.” Dr Johnson •General critics: He portrays love with thinly veiled scorn and this poem is not really about an apology to his mistress at all. •The speaker expresses a difficulty with monogamous love but longs to re-commit to his lady’s ‘safe Bosom’. |
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