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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... Human Shows , Moments of Vision - not ' moments of vision ' in any religious sense ( Hardy was a profound sceptic ) , but moments of seeing things as they really are - as in a short poem which beautifully catches a moment of chilling ...
... Human Shows , Moments of Vision - not ' moments of vision ' in any religious sense ( Hardy was a profound sceptic ) , but moments of seeing things as they really are - as in a short poem which beautifully catches a moment of chilling ...
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... human suffering - and art - into perspective : Musée des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never wrong , The Old Masters : how well they understood Its human position ; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a ...
... human suffering - and art - into perspective : Musée des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never wrong , The Old Masters : how well they understood Its human position ; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a ...
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... human destiny seems to have reached . Each sonnet can stand by itself , yet all interrelate . From the twenty - one that make up the sequence , I have chosen No. VIII . As in all the poems , it is clear that ' He ' is man in general ...
... human destiny seems to have reached . Each sonnet can stand by itself , yet all interrelate . From the twenty - one that make up the sequence , I have chosen No. VIII . As in all the poems , it is clear that ' He ' is man in general ...
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Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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