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 107
... sense it is that general gift of music which , as Coleridge remarked , is one of the two poetic gifts which talent can never reach and which belong to genius alone . But Mil- ton's gift of music is also his own , and the quality of it ...
... sense it is that general gift of music which , as Coleridge remarked , is one of the two poetic gifts which talent can never reach and which belong to genius alone . But Mil- ton's gift of music is also his own , and the quality of it ...
Page 172
... sense defaced ; Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools , And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools . In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn critics in their own defence : Each burns alike , who can , or ...
... sense defaced ; Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools , And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools . In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn critics in their own defence : Each burns alike , who can , or ...
Page 196
... sense agrees ; All men of common - sense allow , That Robert's lines are easy too ; Where then the preference shall we place , Or how do justice in this case ? Matthew , ( says Fame ) with endless pains Smooth'd and refin'd the meanest ...
... sense agrees ; All men of common - sense allow , That Robert's lines are easy too ; Where then the preference shall we place , Or how do justice in this case ? Matthew , ( says Fame ) with endless pains Smooth'd and refin'd the meanest ...
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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