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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Page 55
... seemed an image of Shakespeare himself , making his own farewell to his craft and to his own magic : from The Tempest Prospero . Ye elves of hills , brooks , standing lakes , and groves ; - And ye , that on the sands with printless foot ...
... seemed an image of Shakespeare himself , making his own farewell to his craft and to his own magic : from The Tempest Prospero . Ye elves of hills , brooks , standing lakes , and groves ; - And ye , that on the sands with printless foot ...
Page 63
... seemed within reach , as he became Public Orator at Cambridge and man - about - court . But Herbert arrived at a point in his thirties when he realised that these ambitions were likely to come to. Metaphysical and Devotional , 1590-1670 63.
... seemed within reach , as he became Public Orator at Cambridge and man - about - court . But Herbert arrived at a point in his thirties when he realised that these ambitions were likely to come to. Metaphysical and Devotional , 1590-1670 63.
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... seemed too strange , and strangely mannered . But the poems of A. E. Housman had an immediate appeal , in spite of the fact that Hous- man was almost as reticent and withdrawn as Hopkins . Housman's book A Shropshire Lad was published ...
... seemed too strange , and strangely mannered . But the poems of A. E. Housman had an immediate appeal , in spite of the fact that Hous- man was almost as reticent and withdrawn as Hopkins . Housman's book A Shropshire Lad was published ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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