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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... seems such a fire in the air . A bird sang in his voice . One of the signs of Marlowe at his greatest is the upward movement with which each line ends . This ending is not , of course , invariable , for that would be monotonous . It ...
... seems such a fire in the air . A bird sang in his voice . One of the signs of Marlowe at his greatest is the upward movement with which each line ends . This ending is not , of course , invariable , for that would be monotonous . It ...
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... seem bees " From lillies gathering honey there , " and in which Drayton himself seems to have changed into a bee . The History of English Prosody . TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE Michael Drayton 197 Michael Drayton 1563-1631 Preface to Michael ...
... seem bees " From lillies gathering honey there , " and in which Drayton himself seems to have changed into a bee . The History of English Prosody . TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE Michael Drayton 197 Michael Drayton 1563-1631 Preface to Michael ...
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... seem to me to be , very faintly , quicker , seem to be , very faintly , shorter ( though , in actual- ity , they are not ) than the other lines . This is due to the fact that the use of the d's in " red stained through gold " seems a ...
... seem to me to be , very faintly , quicker , seem to be , very faintly , shorter ( though , in actual- ity , they are not ) than the other lines . This is due to the fact that the use of the d's in " red stained through gold " seems a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
SUNSET ON CALVARY | 17 |
Geoffrey Chaucer 1340?1400 | 30 |
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