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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... known as the Renaissance - a slow and complex process which affected all thought and science , and all the arts . But from the Middle Ages and well into the sixteenth century there survive hundreds of anonymous poems , or poems by ...
... known as the Renaissance - a slow and complex process which affected all thought and science , and all the arts . But from the Middle Ages and well into the sixteenth century there survive hundreds of anonymous poems , or poems by ...
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... known poems , known at least in odd lines and phrases by many people who probably have no idea where they come from : Thomas Gray's ' An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ' – often more briefly called ' Gray's Elegy ' . Gray was a ...
... known poems , known at least in odd lines and phrases by many people who probably have no idea where they come from : Thomas Gray's ' An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ' – often more briefly called ' Gray's Elegy ' . Gray was a ...
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... known about his early life . Both he and his father were ardent Catholics . In 1586 he was implicated in the so - called ' Babington Conspiracy ' against Queen Elizabeth , was arrested and hanged . The poem included here , his only known ...
... known about his early life . Both he and his father were ardent Catholics . In 1586 he was implicated in the so - called ' Babington Conspiracy ' against Queen Elizabeth , was arrested and hanged . The poem included here , his only known ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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