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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... feeling , reading many eighteenth - century poems , that the polished surface disguises an emptiness . This is true at times even in the work of one of the most powerful and individual minds of the age , Samuel Johnson - Dr Johnson ...
... feeling , reading many eighteenth - century poems , that the polished surface disguises an emptiness . This is true at times even in the work of one of the most powerful and individual minds of the age , Samuel Johnson - Dr Johnson ...
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... feel the fell of dark I wake and feel the fell of dark , not day . What hours , O what black hours we have spent This night ! what sights you , heart , saw ; ways you went ! And more must , in yet longer light's delay . With witness I ...
... feel the fell of dark I wake and feel the fell of dark , not day . What hours , O what black hours we have spent This night ! what sights you , heart , saw ; ways you went ! And more must , in yet longer light's delay . With witness I ...
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... feel the love that he knew all about . Two of Auden's contemporaries at Oxford when they were all young together in the late 1920s were Louis MacNeice and John Betjeman . MacNeice , like Auden , was an observant ' social ' poet , well ...
... feel the love that he knew all about . Two of Auden's contemporaries at Oxford when they were all young together in the late 1920s were Louis MacNeice and John Betjeman . MacNeice , like Auden , was an observant ' social ' poet , well ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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