Six Centuries of VerseAnthony Thwaite A history and an anthology of poetry in the English language, from Chaucer to T.S. Elliot, from Shakespeare to Dylan Thomas. Illustrated with contemporary portraits and landscapes, this book is an introduction to English poetry. Anthony Thwaite received the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry in 1983. |
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... English Poetry Poetry Today Twentieth Century English Poetry Travel Japan ( with Roloff Beny ) The Deserts of Hesperides In Italy ( with Roloff Beny and Peter Porter ) Odyssey : Mirror of the Mediterranean ( with Roloff Beny ) For ...
... English Poetry Poetry Today Twentieth Century English Poetry Travel Japan ( with Roloff Beny ) The Deserts of Hesperides In Italy ( with Roloff Beny and Peter Porter ) Odyssey : Mirror of the Mediterranean ( with Roloff Beny ) For ...
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... English in general do seem embarrassed by it - perhaps embarrassed rather than indifferent . And yet English poetry has a longer continuous history of excellence than any other in the world ( even the French and the Japanese might be ...
... English in general do seem embarrassed by it - perhaps embarrassed rather than indifferent . And yet English poetry has a longer continuous history of excellence than any other in the world ( even the French and the Japanese might be ...
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... English , or Anglo - Saxon . Chaucer's ' Middle English ' , as it is called , is closer to us than anything that went before . - So , indeed , are the people about whom Chaucer wrote . The Canterbury Tales is a long sequence of verse ...
... English , or Anglo - Saxon . Chaucer's ' Middle English ' , as it is called , is closer to us than anything that went before . - So , indeed , are the people about whom Chaucer wrote . The Canterbury Tales is a long sequence of verse ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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