Practical Modern English, Volume 3University of London Press, 1949 |
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... Wordsworth and Coleridge , the leaders of the Romantic Revival . Wordsworth expresses the delight felt by those who were enthusiastically in sympathy with the French Revolution in these words : Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive ...
... Wordsworth and Coleridge , the leaders of the Romantic Revival . Wordsworth expresses the delight felt by those who were enthusiastically in sympathy with the French Revolution in these words : Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive ...
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... Wordsworth , if free to write , would benefit mankind , left him a legacy of nine hundred pounds in order that he might devote himself to literature . Thus in 1795 , with his sister Dorothy he settled at Racedown Lodge in Dorsetshire to ...
... Wordsworth , if free to write , would benefit mankind , left him a legacy of nine hundred pounds in order that he might devote himself to literature . Thus in 1795 , with his sister Dorothy he settled at Racedown Lodge in Dorsetshire to ...
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... Wordsworth had been thinking very carefully about the theory of poetry and in a Preface to this new edition he expresses his views clearly and courageously . One of the chief points he makes is to lay down as an axiom the complete ...
... Wordsworth had been thinking very carefully about the theory of poetry and in a Preface to this new edition he expresses his views clearly and courageously . One of the chief points he makes is to lay down as an axiom the complete ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE ANGLOSAXONS | 9 |
THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND AFTER | 18 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY | 24 |
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