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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... seem beyond his powers of imitation . Of all Boccaccio's work it was the story of Troilus and Cressida ( Il Filostrato ) ... seems to revel in the fact that his poem is expressed in terms of the chivalric convention , as if determined to ...
... seem beyond his powers of imitation . Of all Boccaccio's work it was the story of Troilus and Cressida ( Il Filostrato ) ... seems to revel in the fact that his poem is expressed in terms of the chivalric convention , as if determined to ...
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... seems to shake the spheres . CHORUS With ravish'd ears The monarch hears , Assumes the god , Affects to nod , And seems to shake the spheres . The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung , Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young ...
... seems to shake the spheres . CHORUS With ravish'd ears The monarch hears , Assumes the god , Affects to nod , And seems to shake the spheres . The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung , Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young ...
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... seem'd he . O , lift one thought in prayer for S.T.C .; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in ... seems at work . Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring - birds are on the wing- And Winter slumbering in the ...
... seem'd he . O , lift one thought in prayer for S.T.C .; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in ... seems at work . Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring - birds are on the wing- And Winter slumbering in the ...
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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