English Poems from Chaucer to KiplingThomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long |
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... Death and Burial . The Battle of Otterbourne Kinmont Willie Sir Patrick Spens The Douglas Tragedy . Thomas the Rymer . SPENSER From The Faerie Queene : The Red Cross Knight and Una From The Shepheardes Calendar : Chase after Love ...
... Death and Burial . The Battle of Otterbourne Kinmont Willie Sir Patrick Spens The Douglas Tragedy . Thomas the Rymer . SPENSER From The Faerie Queene : The Red Cross Knight and Una From The Shepheardes Calendar : Chase after Love ...
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... death . During the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth centuries 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 ...
... death . During the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth centuries 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 ...
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... death , was as great a master of com- edy as of tragedy , the greatest master indeed of the drama that the world has ever seen . He did not reach this eminence by any sudden effort , but by a long and arduous struggle . He was an actor ...
... death , was as great a master of com- edy as of tragedy , the greatest master indeed of the drama that the world has ever seen . He did not reach this eminence by any sudden effort , but by a long and arduous struggle . He was an actor ...
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... death of Shakespeare , Jonson was the most prominent poet and dramatist in 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 ...
... death of Shakespeare , Jonson was the most prominent poet and dramatist in 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 ...
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... death and the Restoration so many extravagancies had been committed in the name of poetry that some such reform was necessary if poetry was to retain its hold upon the general body of men . The great poets of this period are John Dryden ...
... death and the Restoration so many extravagancies had been committed in the name of poetry that some such reform was necessary if poetry was to retain its hold upon the general body of men . The great poets of this period are John Dryden ...
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