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... 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 down to Swinburne have been glad to acknowledge the debt they owed to " Father ...
... 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 down to Swinburne have been glad to acknowledge the debt they owed to " Father ...
Page xviii
... story embodied in a simple , irregular , but very charming metre . In the narrative poems of Walter Scott ( 1771-1832 ) we see poetry turning with delight toward the romantic Middle Ages , which the critics of the eighteenth century had ...
... story embodied in a simple , irregular , but very charming metre . In the narrative poems of Walter Scott ( 1771-1832 ) we see poetry turning with delight toward the romantic Middle Ages , which the critics of the eighteenth century had ...
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... story - teller . He was a successful man of affairs , an affable man of the world , and a poet of unsurpassed power in his own field . " If character may be divined by works , " says Lowell , " he was a good man , genial , sincere ...
... story - teller . He was a successful man of affairs , an affable man of the world , and a poet of unsurpassed power in his own field . " If character may be divined by works , " says Lowell , " he was a good man , genial , sincere ...
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... story that his hearse was followed by poets who threw into his open grave mournful elegies and the pens that wrote them . Over his tomb a marble monu- ment was erected describing him as the Prince of Poets . Spenser's life covers the ...
... story that his hearse was followed by poets who threw into his open grave mournful elegies and the pens that wrote them . Over his tomb a marble monu- ment was erected describing him as the Prince of Poets . Spenser's life covers the ...
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... stories told of many a feat , 100 How Faery Mab the junkets eat . She was pinched and pulled , she said ; And he , by Friar's lantern led , Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream - bowl duly set , When in one night , ere ...
... stories told of many a feat , 100 How Faery Mab the junkets eat . She was pinched and pulled , she said ; And he , by Friar's lantern led , Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream - bowl duly set , When in one night , ere ...
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