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 229
... hearts the Frye . If ' twere not so , what did become Of my heart , when I first saw thee ? I brought a heart into the roome , But from the roome , I carried none with me : If it had gone to thee , I know Mine would have taught thine heart ...
... hearts the Frye . If ' twere not so , what did become Of my heart , when I first saw thee ? I brought a heart into the roome , But from the roome , I carried none with me : If it had gone to thee , I know Mine would have taught thine heart ...
Page 290
... heart on proud array . Tom's a cold . LEAR . What has thou bin ? EDGAR . A Servingman . Proud in heart , and minde ; that curl'd my haire , wore Gloves in my cap ; serv'd the Lust of my Mistris heart , and did the acte of darkenesse ...
... heart on proud array . Tom's a cold . LEAR . What has thou bin ? EDGAR . A Servingman . Proud in heart , and minde ; that curl'd my haire , wore Gloves in my cap ; serv'd the Lust of my Mistris heart , and did the acte of darkenesse ...
Page 559
... heart ; and that genius which was of the heart rather than of the soul had taken all the chill from Reason , till Reason had the pulse of a human , yet a holy , heart . For his poems are ineffably holy . In the note to that ode which ...
... heart ; and that genius which was of the heart rather than of the soul had taken all the chill from Reason , till Reason had the pulse of a human , yet a holy , heart . For his poems are ineffably holy . In the note to that ode which ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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