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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... Bright effluence of bright essence increate . Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream , Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the Sun , Before the Heavens thou wert , and at the voice Of God , as with a Mantle didst invest The ...
... Bright effluence of bright essence increate . Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream , Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the Sun , Before the Heavens thou wert , and at the voice Of God , as with a Mantle didst invest The ...
Page 117
... Tyger , tyger , burning bright In the forests of the night , What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry ? The Tyger Tyger Typer , burning bright , In the Late Classical Poets and Romantic Pioneers , 1750-1805 117.
... Tyger , tyger , burning bright In the forests of the night , What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry ? The Tyger Tyger Typer , burning bright , In the Late Classical Poets and Romantic Pioneers , 1750-1805 117.
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... bright , In the forests of the night : What inmortal hand or eye . Dare frame thy feartil symmetry , 58. Blake illustrated Songs of Experience himself ; this is the " Tyger ' page . Blake gave a subtitle to his Songs of Innocence and.
... bright , In the forests of the night : What inmortal hand or eye . Dare frame thy feartil symmetry , 58. Blake illustrated Songs of Experience himself ; this is the " Tyger ' page . Blake gave a subtitle to his Songs of Innocence and.
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Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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