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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... sense , absolute . This agèd prince now flourishing in peace , And blest with issue of a large increase , Worn out with business , did at length debate To settle the succession of the state : And pond'ring which of all his sons was fit ...
... sense , absolute . This agèd prince now flourishing in peace , And blest with issue of a large increase , Worn out with business , did at length debate To settle the succession of the state : And pond'ring which of all his sons was fit ...
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Anthony Thwaite. There was a bleaker , more personal , sense of loss in the eight so - called ' terrible sonnets ' of ... sense of finality , Last Poems . In both of them , what is celebrated is time passing . In both , despair is made ...
Anthony Thwaite. There was a bleaker , more personal , sense of loss in the eight so - called ' terrible sonnets ' of ... sense of finality , Last Poems . In both of them , what is celebrated is time passing . In both , despair is made ...
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Anthony Thwaite. That tragic sense , that sense of heroism which had nothing to do with ' public men ' or ' cheering crowds ' , went alongside Yeats's tragic sense of history itself being a series of patterns of behaviour and action ...
Anthony Thwaite. That tragic sense , that sense of heroism which had nothing to do with ' public men ' or ' cheering crowds ' , went alongside Yeats's tragic sense of history itself being a series of patterns of behaviour and action ...
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Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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