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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... dark , dark , dark , amid the blaze of noon ' , or ' The world is too much with us , late and soon ' . We must not ask for this from Chaucer . Rather must we be grateful for the panorama of men and women which his tolerant inquiring eye ...
... dark , dark , dark , amid the blaze of noon ' , or ' The world is too much with us , late and soon ' . We must not ask for this from Chaucer . Rather must we be grateful for the panorama of men and women which his tolerant inquiring eye ...
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... dark and deep , Won from the void and formless infinite . Thee I revisit now with bolder wing , Escap't the Stygian pool , though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn , while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness borne ...
... dark and deep , Won from the void and formless infinite . Thee I revisit now with bolder wing , Escap't the Stygian pool , though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn , while in my flight Through utter and through middle darkness borne ...
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... dark - blue sky , Vaulted o'er the dark - blue sea . Death is the end of life ; ah , why Should life all labour be ? Let us alone . Time driveth onward fast , And in a little while our lips are dumb . Let us alone . What is it that will ...
... dark - blue sky , Vaulted o'er the dark - blue sea . Death is the end of life ; ah , why Should life all labour be ? Let us alone . Time driveth onward fast , And in a little while our lips are dumb . Let us alone . What is it that will ...
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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