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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... story is dramatically direct and powerful in its simplicity . Before the story itself begins , the Pardoner – entirely in character - lays his hypocritical bait by giving plenty of ghastly moral examples about drinking , gambling ...
... story is dramatically direct and powerful in its simplicity . Before the story itself begins , the Pardoner – entirely in character - lays his hypocritical bait by giving plenty of ghastly moral examples about drinking , gambling ...
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... story of King David's treatment of Uriah is put in an entirely Anglo - Indian context - " The Story of Uriah ' : 114. The popular hill station Simla , c . 1900 , where the British went each year to escape the worst of the heat . The ...
... story of King David's treatment of Uriah is put in an entirely Anglo - Indian context - " The Story of Uriah ' : 114. The popular hill station Simla , c . 1900 , where the British went each year to escape the worst of the heat . The ...
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... story - writer can . Philip Larkin in ' Church Going ' uses something of a story - teller's technique in his strategy of placing the reader in the position of walking into the church and round it , looking at things , wondering what ...
... story - writer can . Philip Larkin in ' Church Going ' uses something of a story - teller's technique in his strategy of placing the reader in the position of walking into the church and round it , looking at things , wondering what ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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