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 107
... beneath pride and a temptation to excessive ambition , beneath a superficial hastiness of judgement , lay this deep instinctive wisdom which found its poetic embodiment in that strong and sweet verbal music that has always been the ...
... beneath pride and a temptation to excessive ambition , beneath a superficial hastiness of judgement , lay this deep instinctive wisdom which found its poetic embodiment in that strong and sweet verbal music that has always been the ...
Page 278
... beneath the huge oak tree , And in silence prayeth she . The lady sprang up suddenly , The lovely lady , Christabel ! It moaned as near , as near can be , But what it is she cannot tell.— On the other side it seems to be , Of the huge ...
... beneath the huge oak tree , And in silence prayeth she . The lady sprang up suddenly , The lovely lady , Christabel ! It moaned as near , as near can be , But what it is she cannot tell.— On the other side it seems to be , Of the huge ...
Page 290
... beneath the crags Of ancient mountain , and beneath the clouds , Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language , which ...
... beneath the crags Of ancient mountain , and beneath the clouds , Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language , which ...
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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