A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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... language ? The question is one to which a categorical answer , whether negative or affirmative , is impossible . But when one has considered all the features which dis- tinguish the language of our own time from the dialects of King ...
... language ? The question is one to which a categorical answer , whether negative or affirmative , is impossible . But when one has considered all the features which dis- tinguish the language of our own time from the dialects of King ...
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... language and metre , some of whom have left work which has not been wholly eclipsed by that of their great successor . I When Chaucer began to write in the fourteenth century , the composite character of the English language had already ...
... language and metre , some of whom have left work which has not been wholly eclipsed by that of their great successor . I When Chaucer began to write in the fourteenth century , the composite character of the English language had already ...
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... language that Wordsworth most evidently exaggerates his case . So zealous is he for purity of diction , so opposed to the " gaudiness and inane phraseology " then often affected , that he will allow poetry no claim to a vocabulary of ...
... language that Wordsworth most evidently exaggerates his case . So zealous is he for purity of diction , so opposed to the " gaudiness and inane phraseology " then often affected , that he will allow poetry no claim to a vocabulary of ...
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admiration Anglo-Saxon appeared beauty began Ben Jonson Beowulf blank verse Byron cæsura Canterbury Tales career century character charm Chaucer chief Church Coleridge comedy couplet criticism death decasyllabic delight drama dream Dryden early Elizabethan England English English poetry epic essays expression Faerie Queene Falstaff feeling fiction genius give greatest heart heroic couplet honour human humour imagination instance Jane Eyre Johnson Keats King language later lines literary literature living lyrical manner master metre Milton mind narrative nature never novel novelist Paradise Lost passages passion perhaps play poem poet poet's poetic poetry political Pope prose qualities reader Renaissance rhyme romance satire scenes sense Shakespeare Shelley skill sonnets Spenser spirit stanza story style taste Tennyson things thou thought tragedy true Vanity Fair verse Victorian Whig whole wholly words Wordsworth writers written wrote