A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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... spirit reflected in The Seafarer- Alliterative measures - Epic poetry : Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon - Anglo - Saxon literature not closely akin in spirit to English literature PAGE I CHAPTER II CHAUCER AND HIS AGE Changes in the ...
... spirit reflected in The Seafarer- Alliterative measures - Epic poetry : Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon - Anglo - Saxon literature not closely akin in spirit to English literature PAGE I CHAPTER II CHAUCER AND HIS AGE Changes in the ...
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... spirit . It is a spirit of stubborn endurance , scarcely illumined by hope , yet surveying its destiny with a mixture of fatalism and clear - sighted courage . The first lines of The Seafarer give little foretaste of the spirit of Drake ...
... spirit . It is a spirit of stubborn endurance , scarcely illumined by hope , yet surveying its destiny with a mixture of fatalism and clear - sighted courage . The first lines of The Seafarer give little foretaste of the spirit of Drake ...
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... spirit : but for the most part one moves in a world which is strangely unfamiliar . Of humour , which is so strong a feature of our later literature , there is scarcely a trace . Nature is a mysterious power , to be dreaded rather than ...
... spirit : but for the most part one moves in a world which is strangely unfamiliar . Of humour , which is so strong a feature of our later literature , there is scarcely a trace . Nature is a mysterious power , to be dreaded rather than ...
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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