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... ballad meter in such a poem as Drayton's Ballad of Agincourt . Here also , though one realizes that the poet is now the con- scious artist writing for a literary audience , we get much of the spirit of the old ballads . The day of the ...
... ballad meter in such a poem as Drayton's Ballad of Agincourt . Here also , though one realizes that the poet is now the con- scious artist writing for a literary audience , we get much of the spirit of the old ballads . The day of the ...
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... ballad . We have already noticed that Dr. Thomas Percy collected and pub- lished the old English ballads , which had been neglected for centuries . Immediately the poets saw in these poems materials for their purposes and started to ...
... ballad . We have already noticed that Dr. Thomas Percy collected and pub- lished the old English ballads , which had been neglected for centuries . Immediately the poets saw in these poems materials for their purposes and started to ...
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... ballad . To mention only a few examples out of many , Tennyson employed the ballad technique in The Revenge , Browning used it in How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix , Rossetti adapted it in Sister Helen , and , at the end ...
... ballad . To mention only a few examples out of many , Tennyson employed the ballad technique in The Revenge , Browning used it in How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix , Rossetti adapted it in Sister Helen , and , at the end ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE POETRY | 38 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 42 |
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