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 72
... play , forced on Maeterlinck's poetic mind : Il est le plus sage , le plus savant , le plus conscient et le plus harmonieux des poètes . Pas un vers dans Macbeth qui ne soit musical et ne paraisse modelé , si l'on peut hasarder cette ...
... play , forced on Maeterlinck's poetic mind : Il est le plus sage , le plus savant , le plus conscient et le plus harmonieux des poètes . Pas un vers dans Macbeth qui ne soit musical et ne paraisse modelé , si l'on peut hasarder cette ...
Page 152
... play - house down , ' Tis the most desert place of all the town : We and our neighbours , to speak proudly , are Like monarchs , ruined with expensive war ; While , like wise English , unconcerned you sit , And see us play the tragedy ...
... play - house down , ' Tis the most desert place of all the town : We and our neighbours , to speak proudly , are Like monarchs , ruined with expensive war ; While , like wise English , unconcerned you sit , And see us play the tragedy ...
Page 498
... play on the lyre so that all who heard were spell- bound . Went down to Hades , and by his playing induced Persephone and Pluto to restore his dead wife Eurydice . He broke the condition that he should not look at her until they reached ...
... play on the lyre so that all who heard were spell- bound . Went down to Hades , and by his playing induced Persephone and Pluto to restore his dead wife Eurydice . He broke the condition that he should not look at her until they reached ...
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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