The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry, Volume 2Edith Sitwell Little, Brown, 1958 - 1092 pages The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry is the Life's work of a master reader and a practicing major poet: Dame Edith Sitwell. In a volume which is a labor of love as well as of scholarship, Dame Edith has brought together within the covers of a single book the best of poetry in English, from the earliest pre-Chaucerian lyrics to the British and American poets of the 1950's. -Book leaf |
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Page 273
... nature , " and they have a gross physical enormity of sensation which approaches a kind of physical godhead . Shakespeare is like " the sun , that common - kissing Titan , having a pas- sion for matter , pure and impure , an energy ...
... nature , " and they have a gross physical enormity of sensation which approaches a kind of physical godhead . Shakespeare is like " the sun , that common - kissing Titan , having a pas- sion for matter , pure and impure , an energy ...
Page 286
... Nature , more then Nature needs : Mans life is cheape as Beastes . Thou art a Lady ; If onely to go warme were gorgeous , Why Nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st , Which scarcely keepes thee warme , but for true need : You ...
... Nature , more then Nature needs : Mans life is cheape as Beastes . Thou art a Lady ; If onely to go warme were gorgeous , Why Nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st , Which scarcely keepes thee warme , but for true need : You ...
Page 327
... Nature . POLIXENES . Say there be : Yet Nature is made better by no meane , But Nature makes that Meane : so over that Art , ( Which you say addes to Nature ) is an Art That Nature makes : you see ( sweet Maid ) we marry A gentler Scion ...
... Nature . POLIXENES . Say there be : Yet Nature is made better by no meane , But Nature makes that Meane : so over that Art , ( Which you say addes to Nature ) is an Art That Nature makes : you see ( sweet Maid ) we marry A gentler Scion ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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