Poets of the English Language: Milton to GoldsmithWystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson Viking Press, 1950 - American Poetry (Collections) |
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Wystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson. Introduction VERSE AND PROSE During the latter half of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth , prose comes to rival verse as a popular medium . Moreover , a new kind of ...
Wystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson. Introduction VERSE AND PROSE During the latter half of the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth , prose comes to rival verse as a popular medium . Moreover , a new kind of ...
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... half imbracing leand On our first Father , half her swelling Breast Naked met his under the flowing Gold Of her loose tresses hid : he in delight Both of her Beauty and submissive Charms Smil'd with superior Love , as Jupiter eyes On ...
... half imbracing leand On our first Father , half her swelling Breast Naked met his under the flowing Gold Of her loose tresses hid : he in delight Both of her Beauty and submissive Charms Smil'd with superior Love , as Jupiter eyes On ...
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... half I seem to live , dead more then half . O dark , dark , dark , amid the blaze of noon , Irrecoverably dark , total Eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam , and thou great Word , Let there be light , and light was ...
... half I seem to live , dead more then half . O dark , dark , dark , amid the blaze of noon , Irrecoverably dark , total Eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam , and thou great Word , Let there be light , and light was ...
Contents
Introduction | xiii |
General Principles | xxvi |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 1 |
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