Practical Modern English, Volume 3University of London Press, 1949 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 92
Page 168
... poet of nature . Following the publication of the Lyrical Ballads , Wordsworth accompanied by Dorothy and Coleridge set out for Germany . The poets separated when they reached that country , and Wordsworth and his sister stayed for the ...
... poet of nature . Following the publication of the Lyrical Ballads , Wordsworth accompanied by Dorothy and Coleridge set out for Germany . The poets separated when they reached that country , and Wordsworth and his sister stayed for the ...
Page 178
... Poet Laureate in 1803 and received a pension from the Civil List . He left some good verse among which is The Inchcape Rock , How the Water Comes Down at Lodore , The Battle of Blenheim , Bishop Hatto , The Well of St. Keyne , and The ...
... Poet Laureate in 1803 and received a pension from the Civil List . He left some good verse among which is The Inchcape Rock , How the Water Comes Down at Lodore , The Battle of Blenheim , Bishop Hatto , The Well of St. Keyne , and The ...
Page 215
... poet , was one of the first of the poets to be influenced by the demands of science . It has indeed been said that Tennyson frequently wrote like a scientist with an aptitude for poetry ; while Browning ( whose work will also be ...
... poet , was one of the first of the poets to be influenced by the demands of science . It has indeed been said that Tennyson frequently wrote like a scientist with an aptitude for poetry ; while Browning ( whose work will also be ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE ANGLOSAXONS | 9 |
THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND AFTER | 18 |
GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY | 24 |
Copyright | |
22 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A. E. Housman afterwards appeared ballads beauty became began Beowulf blank verse Byron Cambridge Canterbury Tales career Chapter character Charles Charles Lamb Chaucer Church Coleridge College critics deal death described died drama dramatist early educated eighteenth century England English language English literature enjoyed essays excellent expressed Faerie Queene fame famous father fiction friends genius heroic couplet humour influence interest John John Keats John Masefield Johnson Keats King language later literary lived Lord lyrical married Milton Morality plays nature never night novel novelist Oxford Pepys period plays poems poet poetry Pope popular prose published Queen realise recognised romantic Rossetti Roundheads satire says Shakespeare Shelley shows songs sonnets stanza story style success suffered tells Tennyson thee theme thou to-day Victorian W. B. Yeats W. H. Davies William wonderful words Wordsworth writing written wrote