A Short History of English Poetry, 1340-1940Heinemann, 1961 - 228 Seiten |
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... French Literature . I do not know whether it is still read , and I have not looked at it for many years . A re - reading might prove it to be superficial in judgement and summary in method . But it had the great quality of en- thusiasm ...
... French Literature . I do not know whether it is still read , and I have not looked at it for many years . A re - reading might prove it to be superficial in judgement and summary in method . But it had the great quality of en- thusiasm ...
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... French had been the language of the ruling classes and was used for official purposes . A gradual fusion of the native Teutonic elements with the Norman - French of the in- vaders had produced , by about 1350 , a language that is re ...
... French had been the language of the ruling classes and was used for official purposes . A gradual fusion of the native Teutonic elements with the Norman - French of the in- vaders had produced , by about 1350 , a language that is re ...
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... French poetry , and especially the universally admired and widely imitated Roman de la Rose . He adapted and translated a good deal of this thirteenth - century allegory of love for English readers . He retained for many years his love ...
... French poetry , and especially the universally admired and widely imitated Roman de la Rose . He adapted and translated a good deal of this thirteenth - century allegory of love for English readers . He retained for many years his love ...
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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