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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... sonnets , together with some songs . Addressed to ' Stella ' ( ' She , dear She ' ) , they are smooth , mellifluous even , and are technically perhaps the most perfect poems which had yet been written in English . One of the best ...
... sonnets , together with some songs . Addressed to ' Stella ' ( ' She , dear She ' ) , they are smooth , mellifluous even , and are technically perhaps the most perfect poems which had yet been written in English . One of the best ...
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... sonnets by his younger contemporary , Michael Drayton . Drayton wrote copiously , constantly revising his work throughout his long life . From all his sonnets , here is just one , a late piece ( written in 1619 ) from a sequence called ...
... sonnets by his younger contemporary , Michael Drayton . Drayton wrote copiously , constantly revising his work throughout his long life . From all his sonnets , here is just one , a late piece ( written in 1619 ) from a sequence called ...
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... Sonnets , the first time his 152 sonnets were published together . AT LONDON 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summers day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough windes do shake the darling buds of Maie , And Sommers lease hath ...
... Sonnets , the first time his 152 sonnets were published together . AT LONDON 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summers day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough windes do shake the darling buds of Maie , And Sommers lease hath ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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