Practical Modern English, Volume 3University of London Press, 1949 |
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... Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in night : God said , " Let Newton be ! " And all was light . Pope had a brilliant natural wit which he improved until it was keen and incisive . He paid great attention to the structure of the Heroic ...
... Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in night : God said , " Let Newton be ! " And all was light . Pope had a brilliant natural wit which he improved until it was keen and incisive . He paid great attention to the structure of the Heroic ...
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... nature and a love of its simple pleasures . Much of it was written after he was fifty . He used the old metrical ... nature so evident in Wordsworth's poems . It is for their external loveliness he admires natural things . The following ...
... nature and a love of its simple pleasures . Much of it was written after he was fifty . He used the old metrical ... nature so evident in Wordsworth's poems . It is for their external loveliness he admires natural things . The following ...
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... nature subjects . Wordsworth sought the spiritual in nature , Shelley looked for the intellectual , while Keats expresses what he feels through the senses . He shares with Shelley the distinction of being among the greatest of the ...
... nature subjects . Wordsworth sought the spiritual in nature , Shelley looked for the intellectual , while Keats expresses what he feels through the senses . He shares with Shelley the distinction of being among the greatest of the ...
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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