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 101
... true Did share it . Not a flower , not a flower sweet , On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend , not a friend greet My poor corse , where my bones shall be thrown . A thousand thousand sighs to save , Lay me , O ! where ...
... true Did share it . Not a flower , not a flower sweet , On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend , not a friend greet My poor corse , where my bones shall be thrown . A thousand thousand sighs to save , Lay me , O ! where ...
Page 107
... true that what Wotton called the ' Doric delicacy ' of his verse appears early and remains to the end . There is an accent of grave sweetness that appears faintly in the paraphrases of the Psalms he wrote at the age of fifteen and which ...
... true that what Wotton called the ' Doric delicacy ' of his verse appears early and remains to the end . There is an accent of grave sweetness that appears faintly in the paraphrases of the Psalms he wrote at the age of fifteen and which ...
Page 354
... true of Keats himself , but it does not seem true of Sophocles or Dante . That a poet has no identity is a useful half - truth , for it counteracts the common opinion that a poet is some one hawking his own personality . Many poets ...
... true of Keats himself , but it does not seem true of Sophocles or Dante . That a poet has no identity is a useful half - truth , for it counteracts the common opinion that a poet is some one hawking his own personality . Many poets ...
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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