English Poems from Chaucer to KiplingThomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long |
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... England Battle of the Baltic BYRON Sonnet on Chillon The Prisoner of Chillon She walks in Beauty On this Day I complete my Thirty - Sixth Year SHELLEY · Ode to the West Wind To a Skylark The Indian Serenade Love's Philosophy KEATS Ode ...
... England Battle of the Baltic BYRON Sonnet on Chillon The Prisoner of Chillon She walks in Beauty On this Day I complete my Thirty - Sixth Year SHELLEY · Ode to the West Wind To a Skylark The Indian Serenade Love's Philosophy KEATS Ode ...
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... England . These old English poems are written in a form of speech which it is now impossible to read without previous study , as of a foreign language . The history of English poetry begins for us with Geoffrey Chaucer . His work ...
... England . These old English poems are written in a form of speech which it is now impossible to read without previous study , as of a foreign language . The history of English poetry begins for us with Geoffrey Chaucer . His work ...
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... England was distracted with wars , foreign and civil , and her intellectual energies were occu- pied with shaking off the traditions of the Middle Ages and acquiring the new learning of the Renaissance . The great struggle , moreover ...
... England was distracted with wars , foreign and civil , and her intellectual energies were occu- pied with shaking off the traditions of the Middle Ages and acquiring the new learning of the Renaissance . The great struggle , moreover ...
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... England . The Elizabethan drama was a true reflection of its age , demonstrative , passionate , changeful , passing rapidly from tears to laughter , and from coarse jests to finespun senti- ment . Almost every form of the drama was put ...
... England . The Elizabethan drama was a true reflection of its age , demonstrative , passionate , changeful , passing rapidly from tears to laughter , and from coarse jests to finespun senti- ment . Almost every form of the drama was put ...
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... England , and his example was unfortunately only too powerful . Within five years after his death the theaters were closed by the Puritans . John Milton ( 1608-1674 ) connects the age of Elizabeth with that of the triumph of Puritan ...
... England , and his example was unfortunately only too powerful . Within five years after his death the theaters were closed by the Puritans . John Milton ( 1608-1674 ) connects the age of Elizabeth with that of the triumph of Puritan ...
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