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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... Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself , and , like the current flies Each bound it chafes ... show his genius in miniature is to show it in action in the plays . Impossible though such mini - anthologising of ...
... Shows not till it be struck ; our gentle flame Provokes itself , and , like the current flies Each bound it chafes ... show his genius in miniature is to show it in action in the plays . Impossible though such mini - anthologising of ...
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... Shows , Moments of Vision - not ' moments of vision ' in any religious sense ( Hardy was a profound sceptic ) , but ... show That had moved the congregation so . Hardy's first wife , Emma , died in 1912. It had been in many ways a ...
... Shows , Moments of Vision - not ' moments of vision ' in any religious sense ( Hardy was a profound sceptic ) , but ... show That had moved the congregation so . Hardy's first wife , Emma , died in 1912. It had been in many ways a ...
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... shows Hiroshima boiling over a Mosler Safe , the ' Rock of Ages ' that survived the blast . Space is nearer . When I crouch to my television set , the drained faces of Negro school - children rise like balloons . Colonel Shaw is riding ...
... shows Hiroshima boiling over a Mosler Safe , the ' Rock of Ages ' that survived the blast . Space is nearer . When I crouch to my television set , the drained faces of Negro school - children rise like balloons . Colonel Shaw is riding ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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