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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... Once more , Cesario , Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty : Tell her , my love , more noble than the world , Prizes not quantity of dirty lands ; The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her , Tell her , I hold as giddily as ...
... Once more , Cesario , Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty : Tell her , my love , more noble than the world , Prizes not quantity of dirty lands ; The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her , Tell her , I hold as giddily as ...
Page 127
... once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river . Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran , Then reached the caverns measureless to man , And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And ' mid ...
... once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river . Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran , Then reached the caverns measureless to man , And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And ' mid ...
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... Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside , letting the door thud shut . Another church : matting , seats , and stone , And little books ; sprawlings of flowers , cut For Sunday , brownish now ; some brass and stuff 128 ...
... Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside , letting the door thud shut . Another church : matting , seats , and stone , And little books ; sprawlings of flowers , cut For Sunday , brownish now ; some brass and stuff 128 ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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