Life in English Literature: An Introduction for Beginners, Volumes 1-3Methuen, 1949 - 535 pages |
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Page 45
... poet of any modern interest after Chaucer . He was a clergyman and a courtier whose poems had not a good word for ... poet laureate . " This did not mean that he was the official national poet , as Mr. Masefield is to - day . It meant ...
... poet of any modern interest after Chaucer . He was a clergyman and a courtier whose poems had not a good word for ... poet laureate . " This did not mean that he was the official national poet , as Mr. Masefield is to - day . It meant ...
Page 220
... Poet , T. S. , and it describes , with lively malice , how a dull poet named Flecknoe sought for a poet bad enough to succeed him on the throne of Dulness . All human things are subject to decay And when Fate summons , monarchs must ...
... Poet , T. S. , and it describes , with lively malice , how a dull poet named Flecknoe sought for a poet bad enough to succeed him on the throne of Dulness . All human things are subject to decay And when Fate summons , monarchs must ...
Page 433
... poet was international . He is more widely read on the continent than any other English poet except Shakespeare , partly because he was known to Italy , Greece , and other countries as a man , and partly because his poems have an ...
... poet was international . He is more widely read on the continent than any other English poet except Shakespeare , partly because he was known to Italy , Greece , and other countries as a man , and partly because his poems have an ...
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