English Poetry: An Unfinished History

achievement admirable ballad beauty bel ami Ben Jonson Canterbury Canterbury Tales century Chaucer couplet creative critics dead death delight diction dogmatism doth dramatic earth Elizabethan energy English poetry English verse example eyes fact Fäerie Queen fair flowers genius give grace hath heart Heaven Hero and Leander honour inspired intellectual John Donne Jonson Keats language later less lines Lullaby lute lyric Marlowe material matter Mayor of Casterbridge means MICHIGAN Milton mind mood moral N'oserez narrative nature never night Nightingale once Paradise Lost passages passion perfect pleasure poem poet poet's poetic praise prose reader rhyme Samuel Daniel sense Shakespeare Sir Patrick Spens song sonnet soul Spenser stanzas story sweet T. S. Eliot tell thee thing thou thought tion to-day true truth UNIVE virtue W. B. Yeats Waly whole words Wordsworth write written wrote