English Poems from Chaucer to KiplingThomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long |
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Page xi
... verse . He was , moreover , the first true artist in English poetry , shaping the stories that he borrowed from older or from foreign writers to suit his own end , the delighting of his English readers . All English poets from Spenser ...
... verse . He was , moreover , the first true artist in English poetry , shaping the stories that he borrowed from older or from foreign writers to suit his own end , the delighting of his English readers . All English poets from Spenser ...
Page xii
... verse , like the iron hand beneath the velvet glove . Spenser's chief characteristics as a poet are his passionate love of beauty and his fine gift for musical utterance , and it is by these two qualities that he has profoundly ...
... verse , like the iron hand beneath the velvet glove . Spenser's chief characteristics as a poet are his passionate love of beauty and his fine gift for musical utterance , and it is by these two qualities that he has profoundly ...
Page xvi
... verse . But between Shakespeare's 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 ...
... verse . But between Shakespeare's 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 ...
Page xvii
... verse he is a weak shadow of some minor members of the school of Pope ; but his Scotch poems , which alone are worthy of consideration , show him to be a singer such as had not been known since the Elizabethan period . He has Shakes ...
... verse he is a weak shadow of some minor members of the school of Pope ; but his Scotch poems , which alone are worthy of consideration , show him to be a singer such as had not been known since the Elizabethan period . He has Shakes ...
Page xx
... verse . As a whole , the age was , in the matter of form and subject , one of the most diverse and complex in English literature . In spirit it was for the most part serious , deeply occupied with the results of modern scientific ...
... verse . As a whole , the age was , in the matter of form and subject , one of the most diverse and complex in English literature . In spirit it was for the most part serious , deeply occupied with the results of modern scientific ...
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