A Short History of English Poetry, 1340-1940

achieved admired anthology appeared Augustan ballads beauty became blank verse born Byron Chaucer Coleridge contemporary courtly love critical death delight diction Donne dramatic Dryden early Elegy Elizabethan emotional England English poetry epic euphuism expression favour feeling Gawain Georgian Hero and Leander heroic couplet history of poetry iambic pentameters ideal imagery imaginative important influence inspiration intellectual interest Keats language later lines literary literature living London Lyrical Ballads medieval melody Milton mind minor poet Muse narrative nature never original passion perhaps period Piers Plowman poems poet poetic political Pope popular prose published Puritan recognised regarded religious Renaissance reputation rhymed rhythm rhythmic romantic Romanticism satire sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sing Skelton social songs sonnets Spenser spirit stanza style sweet taste Tennyson thee theme things thou tradition Troubadour true Victorian Wordsworth writing written wrote Wyatt Yeats