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 142
... sound must be an echo to the sense ' ; the aim being to produce a kind of poetic onomatopoeia , which was not always very successful but could sometimes be effective , as in A Song for St. Cecilia's Day . But this sort of artificer's ...
... sound must be an echo to the sense ' ; the aim being to produce a kind of poetic onomatopoeia , which was not always very successful but could sometimes be effective , as in A Song for St. Cecilia's Day . But this sort of artificer's ...
Page 198
... sound of the church - going bell These valleys and rocks never heard , Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell , Or smil'd when a sabbath appear'd . Ye winds , that have made me your sport , Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial ...
... sound of the church - going bell These valleys and rocks never heard , Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell , Or smil'd when a sabbath appear'd . Ye winds , that have made me your sport , Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial ...
Page 400
... sound of a voice that is still ! Break , break , break , At the foot of thy crags , O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me . IN MEMORIAM XI CALM is the morn without a sound , Calm as to suit a ...
... sound of a voice that is still ! Break , break , break , At the foot of thy crags , O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me . IN MEMORIAM XI CALM is the morn without a sound , Calm as to suit a ...
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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