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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... seen as the nineteenth - century American experience - writers who for much of their lives worked in isolation , largely unrecognised , like Poe , Whitman and Melville . Of them all , none was more solitary than Emily Dickinson . Emily ...
... seen as the nineteenth - century American experience - writers who for much of their lives worked in isolation , largely unrecognised , like Poe , Whitman and Melville . Of them all , none was more solitary than Emily Dickinson . Emily ...
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... seen to mark not only a political divide but a literary one . And yet of course changes in poetry , or in any of the arts , never work quite as simply as that . Yeats himself was a man who constructed his own poetic world slowly and ...
... seen to mark not only a political divide but a literary one . And yet of course changes in poetry , or in any of the arts , never work quite as simply as that . Yeats himself was a man who constructed his own poetic world slowly and ...
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... seen in different form in another famous poem of our own time by one of the best living English poets : ' Church Going ' , by Philip Larkin . Just as Lowell's ' For the Union Dead ' is partly a meditation on the death of political ...
... seen in different form in another famous poem of our own time by one of the best living English poets : ' Church Going ' , by Philip Larkin . Just as Lowell's ' For the Union Dead ' is partly a meditation on the death of political ...
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Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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