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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... heart As you have for Olivia : you cannot love her ; You tell her so ; must she not then be answer'd ? Duke . There is no woman's sides Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart ; no woman's heart So big ...
... heart As you have for Olivia : you cannot love her ; You tell her so ; must she not then be answer'd ? Duke . There is no woman's sides Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart ; no woman's heart So big ...
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... heart , for I must hold my tongue ! One of Shakespeare's subtlest gifts is the way in which he can reveal a character through a speech which is also a piece of story - telling , a recounting of a series of memories . There is that ...
... heart , for I must hold my tongue ! One of Shakespeare's subtlest gifts is the way in which he can reveal a character through a speech which is also a piece of story - telling , a recounting of a series of memories . There is that ...
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... heart ? And when thy heart began to beat What dread hand ? & what dread feet ? What the hammer ? what the chain , In what furnace was thy brain ? What the an ? what dread grasp . Brasp . Dare its deadly errors clasp ? When the stars ...
... heart ? And when thy heart began to beat What dread hand ? & what dread feet ? What the hammer ? what the chain , In what furnace was thy brain ? What the an ? what dread grasp . Brasp . Dare its deadly errors clasp ? When the stars ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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