Life in English Literature: An Introduction for Beginners, Volumes 1-3Methuen, 1949 - 535 pages |
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Page 380
... poem is un- rhymed . It is one of a handful of English lyrics which succeed perfectly without rhyme . Another is ... poems , almost all of which were of high quality . They have been much argued about , as coming at the end of the ...
... poem is un- rhymed . It is one of a handful of English lyrics which succeed perfectly without rhyme . Another is ... poems , almost all of which were of high quality . They have been much argued about , as coming at the end of the ...
Page 384
... poems , and these pictures , as always with Blake , are an essential part of the whole poem . He was as much painter as poet . Often the picture came first and the poem was written to illustrate it . There is a great contrast between ...
... poems , and these pictures , as always with Blake , are an essential part of the whole poem . He was as much painter as poet . Often the picture came first and the poem was written to illustrate it . There is a great contrast between ...
Page 410
... poems , and began his great work , the Prelude , or Growth of a Poet's Mind . In the Lyrical Ballads , Wordsworth was to provide poems of simple and rustic life , and Coleridge those which dealt with the supernatural . The great ...
... poems , and began his great work , the Prelude , or Growth of a Poet's Mind . In the Lyrical Ballads , Wordsworth was to provide poems of simple and rustic life , and Coleridge those which dealt with the supernatural . The great ...
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