A Short History of English Poetry, 1340-1940Heinemann, 1961 - 228 Seiten |
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... Elizabethan period . Not less notable than the splendour of the best poetry is the excellence of the average . Men whose talents might have been of small account at any other time composed at least a few lyrics of lasting worth ; and ...
... Elizabethan period . Not less notable than the splendour of the best poetry is the excellence of the average . Men whose talents might have been of small account at any other time composed at least a few lyrics of lasting worth ; and ...
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... Elizabethan lyric is remarkable . The great majority of the lyrics deal with love in all its moods - rapturous , despairing , triumphant , frivolous , tormented , playful , disillusioned . What is remarkable about the Elizabethan love ...
... Elizabethan lyric is remarkable . The great majority of the lyrics deal with love in all its moods - rapturous , despairing , triumphant , frivolous , tormented , playful , disillusioned . What is remarkable about the Elizabethan love ...
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... Elizabethan theatre . It is harsh , angular , explosive , metrically irregular and rhythmically nervous . It deliberately outrages the proprieties of Elizabethan prosody , avoiding Spenserian smoothness and sweetness . For this Donne ...
... Elizabethan theatre . It is harsh , angular , explosive , metrically irregular and rhythmically nervous . It deliberately outrages the proprieties of Elizabethan prosody , avoiding Spenserian smoothness and sweetness . For this Donne ...
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Chaucer I | 1 |
The Fifteenth Century | 15 |
The Early Tudors | 31 |
Urheberrecht | |
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A. E. Housman achieved admired anthology appeared artist unknown Augustan ballads beauty became blank verse Browning Byron Cambridge Chaucer Coleridge contemporary critical death diction Donne dramatic Dryden early eighteenth century Elizabethan emotional England English poetry euphuism expression feeling Gawain Georgian heroic couplet history of poetry iambic pentameters ideal imagery imaginative influence interest James Reeves John Keats language later literary literature living London medieval melody Milton mind minor poet modern narrative nature never Oxford passion period Piers Plowman PLATE poems poet poetic political Pope popular prose published readers recognise regarded religious reputation rhymed rhythm rhythmical romantic Romanticism satire sense seventeenth Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sing Skelton social songs sonnets Spenser spirit stanza style sweet T. S. Eliot taste Tennyson thee theme Thomas thou tradition Victorian W. B. Yeats Wordsworth writing written wrote Wyatt