The Best in Their KindRichards Press, 1949 - 456 pages |
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... poet's poet , and his influence on later poets has been more considerable than that of any other single poet . His eight line stanza of five footed iambics , followed by a six footed iambic , rhyming a b a b b c b c c was most happily ...
... poet's poet , and his influence on later poets has been more considerable than that of any other single poet . His eight line stanza of five footed iambics , followed by a six footed iambic , rhyming a b a b b c b c c was most happily ...
Page 233
... poet . He was born in London on 28th November , 1757 , the grandson of an Irishman called O'Neill who married a girl called Ellen Blake of Rathmines and not only took her name , but bestowed it on his son James , the child of a previous ...
... poet . He was born in London on 28th November , 1757 , the grandson of an Irishman called O'Neill who married a girl called Ellen Blake of Rathmines and not only took her name , but bestowed it on his son James , the child of a previous ...
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... poet of great power who has for some inscrutable reason been appreciated mainly only by other poets . He has always been regarded as the poet's poet . Some readers seem to have been put off by the fact that no halo of romance hovers ...
... poet of great power who has for some inscrutable reason been appreciated mainly only by other poets . He has always been regarded as the poet's poet . Some readers seem to have been put off by the fact that no halo of romance hovers ...
Contents
SIR THOMAS MALORY 1413?1470 | 18 |
EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 24 |
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 15641593 | 38 |
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