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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... give perfect expression to the humours of Falstaff , no less than to the heart - searchings of Hamlet or the tragic passion of Lear . And with this range goes as remarkable a flexibility ; for the poet may pass from one key to another ...
... give perfect expression to the humours of Falstaff , no less than to the heart - searchings of Hamlet or the tragic passion of Lear . And with this range goes as remarkable a flexibility ; for the poet may pass from one key to another ...
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... give men To excuse their after wrath : husband , I come : Now to that name my courage prove my title ! I am fire , and air ; my other elements I give to baser life . So ; have you done ? Come then , and take the last warmth of my lips ...
... give men To excuse their after wrath : husband , I come : Now to that name my courage prove my title ! I am fire , and air ; my other elements I give to baser life . So ; have you done ? Come then , and take the last warmth of my lips ...
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... give , While yet we may , as far as words can give , Substance and life to what I feel , enshrining , Such is my hope , the spirit of the Past For future restoration . ( Prelude , xii , 11. 272–286 . ) EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH ...
... give , While yet we may , as far as words can give , Substance and life to what I feel , enshrining , Such is my hope , the spirit of the Past For future restoration . ( Prelude , xii , 11. 272–286 . ) EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH ...
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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