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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... written is not precisely known : it has been argued that many of them may well have been written before his late ordination at the age of forty - two . They 60 Six Centuries of Verse.
... written is not precisely known : it has been argued that many of them may well have been written before his late ordination at the age of forty - two . They 60 Six Centuries of Verse.
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... written in China . But it is not really about war , as such , but about man's predicament in the twentieth century , about the position that human destiny seems to have reached . Each sonnet can stand by itself , yet all interrelate ...
... written in China . But it is not really about war , as such , but about man's predicament in the twentieth century , about the position that human destiny seems to have reached . Each sonnet can stand by itself , yet all interrelate ...
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... written in 1951 , was cast in a form ( that of the villanelle , originally from medieval French Provence ) which Chaucer would have recognised almost six centuries earlier . As has been apparent throughout this book , every age has its ...
... written in 1951 , was cast in a form ( that of the villanelle , originally from medieval French Provence ) which Chaucer would have recognised almost six centuries earlier . As has been apparent throughout this book , every age has its ...
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Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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