A Short History of English Poetry, 1340-1940Heinemann, 1961 - 228 Seiten |
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... Latin verse and prose , the monkish Latin of the later Middle Ages . Here is an example from one of his most delightful poems , The Book of Philip Sparrow , a long , rambling , sparklingly loquacious elegy on the death of a pet ...
... Latin verse and prose , the monkish Latin of the later Middle Ages . Here is an example from one of his most delightful poems , The Book of Philip Sparrow , a long , rambling , sparklingly loquacious elegy on the death of a pet ...
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... Latin . The violent and rhetorical tragedies of Seneca were put into English , and had an immense influence on the development of the drama . The most important translation of any of the Latin poets was Arthur Golding's version of the ...
... Latin . The violent and rhetorical tragedies of Seneca were put into English , and had an immense influence on the development of the drama . The most important translation of any of the Latin poets was Arthur Golding's version of the ...
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... Latin as the height of excellence , suddenly discovers English and revels in its potentialities . He is like a child with a new toy . The writing sparkles with assonance and alliteration , pun and antithesis . Euphuism was as much a ...
... Latin as the height of excellence , suddenly discovers English and revels in its potentialities . He is like a child with a new toy . The writing sparkles with assonance and alliteration , pun and antithesis . Euphuism was as much a ...
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Chaucer I | 1 |
The Fifteenth Century | 15 |
The Early Tudors | 31 |
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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