Types of English PoetryRudolf Kirk, Clara Marburg Kirk |
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... things , by means of which man is able to throw off the slavery of custom and wealth and to conceive of a new society . But more important still , poetry is that which " makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world ...
... things , by means of which man is able to throw off the slavery of custom and wealth and to conceive of a new society . But more important still , poetry is that which " makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world ...
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... things to come ! So gazed I , till the soothing things , I dreamt , Lulled me to sleep , and sleep prolonged my dreams ! And so I brooded all the following morn , Awed by the stern preceptor's face , mine eye Fixed with mock study on my ...
... things to come ! So gazed I , till the soothing things , I dreamt , Lulled me to sleep , and sleep prolonged my dreams ! And so I brooded all the following morn , Awed by the stern preceptor's face , mine eye Fixed with mock study on my ...
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... thing he loved . For nature then ( The coarser pleasures of my boyish days , And their glad animal movements all gone by ) To me was all in all . — I cannot paint What then I was . The sounding cataract ... things . WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 585.
... thing he loved . For nature then ( The coarser pleasures of my boyish days , And their glad animal movements all gone by ) To me was all in all . — I cannot paint What then I was . The sounding cataract ... things . WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 585.
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE POETRY | 38 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 42 |
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Afrasiab ancient arms ballad beauty bird blood breath bright Brignal Camelot century cloud dark dead dear death delight doth dread dream earth English poetry eyes face Faerie Queene fair fame father fear flowers GEOFFREY CHAUCER hair hand hast hath head hear heard heart Hell and Heaven hill king Lady of Shalott light Little brother live look Lord lyric poetry Mary Mother Matthew Arnold medieval mighty mind moon mordre morn narrative poetry never night nymph o'er Oxus Persian poem poetry poets queen quoth rime rose round Rustum sand ship sigh sing Sister Helen sleep smile soft Sohrab song soul sound spake spear spirit stars stood sweet sylphs Tartar tears Thalestris thee thine things thou art thought voice waves whan wind wings woods young youth ΙΟ