A Short History of English Poetry, 1340-1940Heinemann, 1961 - 228 Seiten |
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... Spenser was not pre - eminently a witty poet ; he avoided stylistic extravagance and never indulged in mere verbal exhibitionism ; but the atmosphere of the time must have had its effect on the vocabulary and rhetoric of his poems ...
... Spenser was not pre - eminently a witty poet ; he avoided stylistic extravagance and never indulged in mere verbal exhibitionism ; but the atmosphere of the time must have had its effect on the vocabulary and rhetoric of his poems ...
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... Spenser's career ; if so , they well illustrate the comparative absence of what is usually called ' development ' in his style . The mature Spenser is rightly regarded as mellifluous : this is the only quality for which readers in all ...
... Spenser's career ; if so , they well illustrate the comparative absence of what is usually called ' development ' in his style . The mature Spenser is rightly regarded as mellifluous : this is the only quality for which readers in all ...
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... Spenser . .... The language of Spenser is full , and copious , to overflowing : he was , probably , seduced into a certain license of expression by the difficulty of filling up the moulds of his complicated rhymed stanza from the ...
... Spenser . .... The language of Spenser is full , and copious , to overflowing : he was , probably , seduced into a certain license of expression by the difficulty of filling up the moulds of his complicated rhymed stanza from the ...
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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