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... English poetry is carried by the strong - stress and syllable - stress metres . Two other kinds of metres must be mentioned : the purely syllabic metres and the quantitative metres . The count of syllables determines the metres of ...
... English poetry is carried by the strong - stress and syllable - stress metres . Two other kinds of metres must be mentioned : the purely syllabic metres and the quantitative metres . The count of syllables determines the metres of ...
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... English poetry , for example , during the Old English period ( to 1100 ) , the strong - stress metres car- ried both lyric and narrative verse . In the Middle English period ( from c . 1100 to c . 1500 ) , stanzaic forms developed for ...
... English poetry , for example , during the Old English period ( to 1100 ) , the strong - stress metres car- ried both lyric and narrative verse . In the Middle English period ( from c . 1100 to c . 1500 ) , stanzaic forms developed for ...
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... English fiction into the modern age . John Galsworthy ( 1867-1933 ) showed himself interested in the processes by which old institutions , such as a great Whig family , decay as history advances , but in both style and characterization ...
... English fiction into the modern age . John Galsworthy ( 1867-1933 ) showed himself interested in the processes by which old institutions , such as a great Whig family , decay as history advances , but in both style and characterization ...
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