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It is true that prose , as represented , for example , by The Travels of Sir John Mandeville , makes a poor display by the side of The Canterbury Tales ; but the poets are on a different plane . Of Chaucer's two great contemporaries one ...
It is true that prose , as represented , for example , by The Travels of Sir John Mandeville , makes a poor display by the side of The Canterbury Tales ; but the poets are on a different plane . Of Chaucer's two great contemporaries one ...
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A typical writer of the age was Sir William Watson , who both as a sonneteer and as an elegiac poet has written work of high distinction and beauty . A fine combination of literary culture and poetic feeling is also found in the work of ...
A typical writer of the age was Sir William Watson , who both as a sonneteer and as an elegiac poet has written work of high distinction and beauty . A fine combination of literary culture and poetic feeling is also found in the work of ...
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Housman is a poet swayed by an impulse altogether deeper than his conscious mind , and his words have a power of suggestion far beyond their visible meaning . The phrasing may well be called “ inevitable ” in some of his best lyrics ...
Housman is a poet swayed by an impulse altogether deeper than his conscious mind , and his words have a power of suggestion far beyond their visible meaning . The phrasing may well be called “ inevitable ” in some of his best lyrics ...
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