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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Edith Sitwell. I will acknowledge contemporary lands , I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small , And employments ! I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea ...
Edith Sitwell. I will acknowledge contemporary lands , I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small , And employments ! I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea ...
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... Land and the Quartets have been analyzed at such length , and by so many , that it is best for any commentator writ- ing now of Eliot to examine other poems . In The Hollow Men , the terrible poem which followed The Waste Land , with ...
... Land and the Quartets have been analyzed at such length , and by so many , that it is best for any commentator writ- ing now of Eliot to examine other poems . In The Hollow Men , the terrible poem which followed The Waste Land , with ...
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... LAND " Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere , et cum illi pueri dicerent : Σίβυλλα τί Θέλεις ; respondebat illa : ἀποθανεῖν Θέλω . For Ezra Pound il miglior fabbro . I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD April is ...
... LAND " Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere , et cum illi pueri dicerent : Σίβυλλα τί Θέλεις ; respondebat illa : ἀποθανεῖν Θέλω . For Ezra Pound il miglior fabbro . I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD April is ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
Copyright | |
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