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... Poets : Goldsmith , Gray , Burns , Cowper 12 12 20 20 21 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 13-15 16 17 17 , 18 19 21 22 , 23 24 25 25-28 Prose Writers : Johnson , Burke , Hume , Gibbon OTHER AUTHORS 29-32 32 , 33 PERIOD VIII - AGE OF SCOTT REPRESENTATIVE ...
... Poets : Goldsmith , Gray , Burns , Cowper 12 12 20 20 21 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 13-15 16 17 17 , 18 19 21 22 , 23 24 25 25-28 Prose Writers : Johnson , Burke , Hume , Gibbon OTHER AUTHORS 29-32 32 , 33 PERIOD VIII - AGE OF SCOTT REPRESENTATIVE ...
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... Poets Tennyson , Mrs. Browning , Robert Brown- ing , Jean Ingelow , Swinburne , Morris , Arnold Prose Writers : Macaulay , Grote , Froude , Dick- ens , Thackeray , Lytton , Eliot , Reade , Hamil- ton , Darwin , Carlyle , Ruskin OTHER ...
... Poets Tennyson , Mrs. Browning , Robert Brown- ing , Jean Ingelow , Swinburne , Morris , Arnold Prose Writers : Macaulay , Grote , Froude , Dick- ens , Thackeray , Lytton , Eliot , Reade , Hamil- ton , Darwin , Carlyle , Ruskin OTHER ...
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... Poetry and Prose . POETRY . - Poetry is imaginative composition in metrica form . It is of eight kinds , -Epic , Dramatic , Narrative and Descriptive , Lyric , Didactic , Pastoral , Elegiac , and Humorous . An Epic poem is a long poetic ...
... Poetry and Prose . POETRY . - Poetry is imaginative composition in metrica form . It is of eight kinds , -Epic , Dramatic , Narrative and Descriptive , Lyric , Didactic , Pastoral , Elegiac , and Humorous . An Epic poem is a long poetic ...
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... poet , Geoffrey Chaucer . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1340-1400 ) , known as " the father of English poetry , " was not only the earliest of our great poets , but was also the only author of the first class that England ...
... poet , Geoffrey Chaucer . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1340-1400 ) , known as " the father of English poetry , " was not only the earliest of our great poets , but was also the only author of the first class that England ...
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... poet , first " Poet- Laureate , " tutor to the Duke of York , afterwards Henry VIII . , author of Colin Clout , Book of the Sparrow , etc. SIR THOMAS Wyatt ( 1503–1542 ) , a statesman and lyric poet . His best poems are his love songs ...
... poet , first " Poet- Laureate , " tutor to the Duke of York , afterwards Henry VIII . , author of Colin Clout , Book of the Sparrow , etc. SIR THOMAS Wyatt ( 1503–1542 ) , a statesman and lyric poet . His best poems are his love songs ...
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