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... achievement far behind and became the first great English poet , with no one to share his eminence until the coming of the Elizabethans two hundred years later . With these tales the living delight of English poetry begins , to be ...
... achievement far behind and became the first great English poet , with no one to share his eminence until the coming of the Elizabethans two hundred years later . With these tales the living delight of English poetry begins , to be ...
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... achievement in kind , let alone degree . On an Italian mission he is said to have met Boccaccio , and something in the spirit of his work derived from this and other continental contacts . But when all such allowance is made , the ...
... achievement in kind , let alone degree . On an Italian mission he is said to have met Boccaccio , and something in the spirit of his work derived from this and other continental contacts . But when all such allowance is made , the ...
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... achievement that he as continually misses . I mention him here merely on account of a bibliographical point in connexion with his one lovely moment of inspiration . Mr. Braithwaite , in his Book of Restoration Verse , gives his Epitaph ...
... achievement that he as continually misses . I mention him here merely on account of a bibliographical point in connexion with his one lovely moment of inspiration . Mr. Braithwaite , in his Book of Restoration Verse , gives his Epitaph ...
Contents
THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF POETRY | 8 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 16 |
READING POETRY | 25 |
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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