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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... Wordsworth , silhouette ( The Trustees of Dove Cottage , Grasmere ) 132 67 Dorothy Wordsworth's journal , 15 April 1802 ( The Trustees of Dove Cottage , Grasmere ) 132 68 William Wordsworth , chalk drawing by B. R. Haydon , 1818 ...
... Wordsworth , silhouette ( The Trustees of Dove Cottage , Grasmere ) 132 67 Dorothy Wordsworth's journal , 15 April 1802 ( The Trustees of Dove Cottage , Grasmere ) 132 68 William Wordsworth , chalk drawing by B. R. Haydon , 1818 ...
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... Wordsworth's task in Lyrical Ballads being to direct the mind ' to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ' , gives only a partial view of what Wordsworth achieved in his long writing life . He was certainly a more ...
... Wordsworth's task in Lyrical Ballads being to direct the mind ' to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ' , gives only a partial view of what Wordsworth achieved in his long writing life . He was certainly a more ...
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... Wordsworth began during that German winter when he was in his late twenties was something much longer , something at the very centre of his life , and something which occupied him for much of the rest of that life . It was not in fact ...
... Wordsworth began during that German winter when he was in his late twenties was something much longer , something at the very centre of his life , and something which occupied him for much of the rest of that life . It was not in fact ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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