A Short History of English Poetry

A. E. Housman admired Auden Augustan Basil Bunting beauty Beowulf bitter Byron C. H. Sisson C. S. Lewis called Canterbury Tales century Chaucer Christ Christian Coleridge critic dark dead death delight Donne Donne's Dryden early edited Eliot England English poetry eternal express eyes famous father feeling Gawain gift heart heaven I. A. Richards Irish James Johnson Keats kind King Langland language lines living long poem Lord lost love poems lyrical Matthew Arnold medieval medieval poetry Milton mind modern mood nature never night Old English passage passion perhaps poet poetic Pope prose R. S. Thomas reader rhyme romantic satire Scotland Scots Scottish seems sense Shelley song sonnet soul stanza strange stress style sweet syllable T. S. Eliot Tennyson thee Thom Gunn Thomas thou thought tion tradition verse Victorian words Wordsworth writing wrote Yeats young