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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... wrote them was , one might say , in voluntary internal exile . Milton by now was in his fifties , stripped of all the political responsibilities he had held during Cromwell's rule , stripped of most of his property , fined , protected ...
... wrote them was , one might say , in voluntary internal exile . Milton by now was in his fifties , stripped of all the political responsibilities he had held during Cromwell's rule , stripped of most of his property , fined , protected ...
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... wrote 366 poems in 1862 alone . Only a handful were published during her lifetime , all of 104. The reclusive Emily Dickinson wrote intensely personal and often spiritual poetry , highly original in thought and form . 4 105. Emily ...
... wrote 366 poems in 1862 alone . Only a handful were published during her lifetime , all of 104. The reclusive Emily Dickinson wrote intensely personal and often spiritual poetry , highly original in thought and form . 4 105. Emily ...
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... wrote in solitude . them mangled by editors who thought they ought to be tidied up , or by incompetent printers . For years these thousands of tiny poems lay in a box in the family house in Amherst , and it was not until 1890 , four ...
... wrote in solitude . them mangled by editors who thought they ought to be tidied up , or by incompetent printers . For years these thousands of tiny poems lay in a box in the family house in Amherst , and it was not until 1890 , four ...
Contents
Medieval to Elizabethan 14001600 | 16 |
Shakespeare 15641616 | 41 |
Metaphysical and Devotional 15901670 | 56 |
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