A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... POETS FROM THOMSON TO BLAKE . Form and spirit of eighteenth - century poetry Thomson , Shenstone , and minors New ... poets - Diversity of style and spirit in Victo- rian literature Degradation of Victorian drama - Criticism and Novel ...
... POETS FROM THOMSON TO BLAKE . Form and spirit of eighteenth - century poetry Thomson , Shenstone , and minors New ... poets - Diversity of style and spirit in Victo- rian literature Degradation of Victorian drama - Criticism and Novel ...
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... poet who interested himself in the songs and lays of his heathen forefathers , and , making a selec- tion of them , worked them into a consecutive story . Whether he rewrote and refashioned the old lays , or merely edited them without ...
... poet who interested himself in the songs and lays of his heathen forefathers , and , making a selec- tion of them , worked them into a consecutive story . Whether he rewrote and refashioned the old lays , or merely edited them without ...
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... poet . We are not to suppose that the old pagan poetry ceased at once to find an audience : some of it , like Beowulf , was put into writing , as we have seen , by Christian scholars , who would , as far as possible , eliminate all ...
... poet . We are not to suppose that the old pagan poetry ceased at once to find an audience : some of it , like Beowulf , was put into writing , as we have seen , by Christian scholars , who would , as far as possible , eliminate all ...
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... poet . In no old English poetry is the martial passion so marked , so exclusive : and this is the more striking as ... poetic pastime there 6 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... poet . In no old English poetry is the martial passion so marked , so exclusive : and this is the more striking as ... poetic pastime there 6 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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... poet as common poetic coin on which he might ring the changes , when he had not the skill to invent phrases of his own . The poem on Brunanburh ( Tennyson's translation will give any one who cannot read Old English a fair idea of the ...
... poet as common poetic coin on which he might ring the changes , when he had not the skill to invent phrases of his own . The poem on Brunanburh ( Tennyson's translation will give any one who cannot read Old English a fair idea of the ...
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