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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... heaven with my bootlesse cries , And looke upon my selfe and curse my fate . Wishing me like to one more rich in ... Heavens gate , For thy sweet love remembred such welth brings , That then I skorne to change my state with Kings . 94 ...
... heaven with my bootlesse cries , And looke upon my selfe and curse my fate . Wishing me like to one more rich in ... Heavens gate , For thy sweet love remembred such welth brings , That then I skorne to change my state with Kings . 94 ...
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... Heaven r . more in Heaven . Lib . 6. V. 184. for blessed r . bleft . b.6 / V215 , for founder x . fo under , ' Lib . 1o . V. 575. for left r . Laft , 2 Other literal faults the Reader of himself may Correct . PARADISE LOST . BOOK I. F ...
... Heaven r . more in Heaven . Lib . 6. V. 184. for blessed r . bleft . b.6 / V215 , for founder x . fo under , ' Lib . 1o . V. 575. for left r . Laft , 2 Other literal faults the Reader of himself may Correct . PARADISE LOST . BOOK I. F ...
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... Heaven : from Paradise Lost , Book IV While thus he spake , th'Angelic Squadron bright Turnd fierie red , sharpning in moonèd hornes Thir Phalanx , and began to hemm him round With ported Spears , as thick as when a field Of Ceres ripe ...
... Heaven : from Paradise Lost , Book IV While thus he spake , th'Angelic Squadron bright Turnd fierie red , sharpning in moonèd hornes Thir Phalanx , and began to hemm him round With ported Spears , as thick as when a field Of Ceres ripe ...
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Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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