Practical Modern English, Volume 3University of London Press, 1949 |
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... greatest poets , notably Byron , Keats , and Tennyson , have made use of this stanza form . Several of Spenser's shorter poems are gay and happy . Among these , Epithalamion has been described as the most perfect marriage poem in the ...
... greatest poets , notably Byron , Keats , and Tennyson , have made use of this stanza form . Several of Spenser's shorter poems are gay and happy . Among these , Epithalamion has been described as the most perfect marriage poem in the ...
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... greatest comedy . There is one tragedy , Henry VIII . It is interesting that in The Tempest , the magician Prospero formally bids farewell to Art and to Ariel , the sprite who had been the source of his inspiration and who had been kept ...
... greatest comedy . There is one tragedy , Henry VIII . It is interesting that in The Tempest , the magician Prospero formally bids farewell to Art and to Ariel , the sprite who had been the source of his inspiration and who had been kept ...
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... greatest literary genius of the period . He had none of Gold- smith's brilliance as shown in his poems , novel , and plays ; none of the oratory displayed by Burke in his speeches ; he was not equal to Gibbon in scholarship , yet his ...
... greatest literary genius of the period . He had none of Gold- smith's brilliance as shown in his poems , novel , and plays ; none of the oratory displayed by Burke in his speeches ; he was not equal to Gibbon in scholarship , yet his ...
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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