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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... King Lear , and his three Daughters . With the unfortunate life of EDGAR , fonne and heire to the Earle of Glocefter , and his fullen and affumed humour of TOM of Bedlam . As it was plaid before the Kings Maiefty at White - Hall , up ...
... King Lear , and his three Daughters . With the unfortunate life of EDGAR , fonne and heire to the Earle of Glocefter , and his fullen and affumed humour of TOM of Bedlam . As it was plaid before the Kings Maiefty at White - Hall , up ...
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Anthony Thwaite. Sull Coll Richa Rainult Hill Penny Hill Broad Meer The King's Baggage The King Lyfe Guards K.Charles Hardre Wall Mill Hill Howards Prince Ruperte Hego Kor 鹽 Bande General Fr But the spite on ' t is , no praise. 32 ...
Anthony Thwaite. Sull Coll Richa Rainult Hill Penny Hill Broad Meer The King's Baggage The King Lyfe Guards K.Charles Hardre Wall Mill Hill Howards Prince Ruperte Hego Kor 鹽 Bande General Fr But the spite on ' t is , no praise. 32 ...
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... King Arthur and his knights in his Idylls of the King , and from the heroic epics of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey . In the monologue ' Ulysses ' , Tennyson imagines Ulysses towards the end of his life , back in Ithaca after his long ...
... King Arthur and his knights in his Idylls of the King , and from the heroic epics of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey . In the monologue ' Ulysses ' , Tennyson imagines Ulysses towards the end of his life , back in Ithaca after his long ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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