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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... leaves . These effects could only have been produced by one of the great- est of artists in his own medium . Here is another example : In the mute August afternoon They trembled to some undertune Of music in the silver air ; Great ...
... leaves . These effects could only have been produced by one of the great- est of artists in his own medium . Here is another example : In the mute August afternoon They trembled to some undertune Of music in the silver air ; Great ...
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... leaves Will you trade roses for acorns Will lynxes eat thorn leaves ? What have you in that wine jar ? ixúp , for lynxes ? Maelid and bassarid among lynxes ; how many ? There are more under the oak trees , We are here waiting the sun ...
... leaves Will you trade roses for acorns Will lynxes eat thorn leaves ? What have you in that wine jar ? ixúp , for lynxes ? Maelid and bassarid among lynxes ; how many ? There are more under the oak trees , We are here waiting the sun ...
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... LEAVES Under the bronze leaves a colt was foaled . Came such an one who laid bitter bay in our hands . Stranger . Who passed . Here comes news of other provinces to my liking . " Hail , daughter ! under the most considerable of the ...
... LEAVES Under the bronze leaves a colt was foaled . Came such an one who laid bitter bay in our hands . Stranger . Who passed . Here comes news of other provinces to my liking . " Hail , daughter ! under the most considerable of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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