Fifteen Poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and Others] ...Clarendon Press, 1941 - 503 pages Selections of the best work of the masters of English poetry from Chaucer to Arnold. Each group of selections is preceded by short essays of appreciation and summaries of the poets' lives. |
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Page 105
... nature . He speaks of the enormous bliss of nature's wanton exuberance in the Garden of Eden , and with Comus's enthusiasm for her prodigality ( ' Wherefore did Nature poure her bounties forth . . . ' ) he is in fundamental accord . And ...
... nature . He speaks of the enormous bliss of nature's wanton exuberance in the Garden of Eden , and with Comus's enthusiasm for her prodigality ( ' Wherefore did Nature poure her bounties forth . . . ' ) he is in fundamental accord . And ...
Page 172
... Nature , and your judgment frame By her just standard , which is still the same : Unerring Nature , still divinely bright , One clear , unchanged , and universal light , Life , force , and beauty , must to all impart , At once the ...
... Nature , and your judgment frame By her just standard , which is still the same : Unerring Nature , still divinely bright , One clear , unchanged , and universal light , Life , force , and beauty , must to all impart , At once the ...
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... nature led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads than one Who sought the thing he loved . For nature then ( The coarser pleasures of my boyish days , And their glad animal movements all gone by ) To me was all in all ...
... nature led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads than one Who sought the thing he loved . For nature then ( The coarser pleasures of my boyish days , And their glad animal movements all gone by ) To me was all in all ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER By H S BENNETT | 8 |
The Dream | 33 |
The Fight of the Red Cross Knight and the Heathen | 54 |
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