English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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... appeared during his lifetime . He himself attended to the publication only of his two highly decorated long narrative poems , Venus and Adonis ( 1593 ) and The Rape of Lucrece ( 1594 ) . An unauthorized edition of his sonnets appeared ...
... appeared during his lifetime . He himself attended to the publication only of his two highly decorated long narrative poems , Venus and Adonis ( 1593 ) and The Rape of Lucrece ( 1594 ) . An unauthorized edition of his sonnets appeared ...
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... appeared long before 1660. All through this age of Milton they were developing in English Liter- ature itself , independent of foreign influence . This appears , for example , in drama . Shakespeare and his contemporaries carried ...
... appeared long before 1660. All through this age of Milton they were developing in English Liter- ature itself , independent of foreign influence . This appears , for example , in drama . Shakespeare and his contemporaries carried ...
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... appeared in 1782. Under the influence of Lady Austen , who to encourage him said , " You can write on any subject ; write on this sofa , " he composed in blank verse The Task ( 1785 ) , made attractive by its quiet humor and its ...
... appeared in 1782. Under the influence of Lady Austen , who to encourage him said , " You can write on any subject ; write on this sofa , " he composed in blank verse The Task ( 1785 ) , made attractive by its quiet humor and its ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
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