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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... sometimes I have used the original spelling , sometimes a modernised version , and my choice has been dictated by what I feel is appropriate to the work . The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost seem to me to benefit from the original ...
... sometimes I have used the original spelling , sometimes a modernised version , and my choice has been dictated by what I feel is appropriate to the work . The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost seem to me to benefit from the original ...
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... sometimes be alleviated , if not wholly reconciled . For example , in his poem ' London ' - on the face of it one of Blake's grimmest - a beam of light illuminates the boy in the engraving as he leads the old man ' thro ' each charter'd ...
... sometimes be alleviated , if not wholly reconciled . For example , in his poem ' London ' - on the face of it one of Blake's grimmest - a beam of light illuminates the boy in the engraving as he leads the old man ' thro ' each charter'd ...
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... sometimes seem a religion . Later in the nineteenth century there was to be the catch - phrase ' Art for Art's sake ' . Christina Rossetti's brother , Dante Gabriel , was primarily a painter , whose paintings are full of colour ...
... sometimes seem a religion . Later in the nineteenth century there was to be the catch - phrase ' Art for Art's sake ' . Christina Rossetti's brother , Dante Gabriel , was primarily a painter , whose paintings are full of colour ...
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Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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