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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... spirit . For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt . For every family had one cat at least in the bag . For the English Cats are the best in Europe . For he is the cleanest in ...
... spirit . For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt . For every family had one cat at least in the bag . For the English Cats are the best in Europe . For he is the cleanest in ...
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... spirit seal A slumber did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seem'd a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years . No motion has she now , no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course ...
... spirit seal A slumber did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seem'd a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years . No motion has she now , no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course ...
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... spirit is not one of celebration , as in ' Pied Beauty ' and ' The Windhover ' , but of desolation , almost of despair . In ' I wake and feel the fell of dark ' , the images crowd in on one another - images of being smothered , isolated ...
... spirit is not one of celebration , as in ' Pied Beauty ' and ' The Windhover ' , but of desolation , almost of despair . In ' I wake and feel the fell of dark ' , the images crowd in on one another - images of being smothered , isolated ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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