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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... land ' ; but in fact he had been reading a book by an ancient Greek historian ( Diodorus Siculus , a contemporary of Julius Caesar ) . In it he had found a description of a monument erected by an Egyptian monarch , with a version of the ...
... land ' ; but in fact he had been reading a book by an ancient Greek historian ( Diodorus Siculus , a contemporary of Julius Caesar ) . In it he had found a description of a monument erected by an Egyptian monarch , with a version of the ...
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... land ; And the yellow half - moon large and low ; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep , As I gain the cove with pushing prow , And quench its speed i ' the slushy sand . Then a mile of warm sea ...
... land ; And the yellow half - moon large and low ; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep , As I gain the cove with pushing prow , And quench its speed i ' the slushy sand . Then a mile of warm sea ...
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... Land . Indeed , the Great War of 1914-18 can be seen to mark not only a political divide but a literary one . And yet of course changes in poetry , or in any of the arts , never work quite as simply as that . Yeats himself was a man who ...
... Land . Indeed , the Great War of 1914-18 can be seen to mark not only a political divide but a literary one . And yet of course changes in poetry , or in any of the arts , never work quite as simply as that . Yeats himself was a man who ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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