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 112
... deep organ blow , And with your ninefold harmony Make up your consort to th'angelic symphony . For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long , Time will run back , and fetch the age of gold , And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die ...
... deep organ blow , And with your ninefold harmony Make up your consort to th'angelic symphony . For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long , Time will run back , and fetch the age of gold , And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die ...
Page 326
... deep , Yet each inter - transpicuous . . . ' Such as ghosts dream ' ; suddenly Shelley is beating the compact poets in effective laconics . Perhaps he is surpassing Coleridge in the dream question ; Coleridge had written of ' that ...
... deep , Yet each inter - transpicuous . . . ' Such as ghosts dream ' ; suddenly Shelley is beating the compact poets in effective laconics . Perhaps he is surpassing Coleridge in the dream question ; Coleridge had written of ' that ...
Page 330
... deep mysteries . I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins , where black death Keeps record of the trophies won from thee , Hoping to still these obstinate questionings Of thee and thine , by forcing some lone ghost , Thy messenger ...
... deep mysteries . I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins , where black death Keeps record of the trophies won from thee , Hoping to still these obstinate questionings Of thee and thine , by forcing some lone ghost , Thy messenger ...
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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