This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... poet knows more keenly than Shakespeare the terrors of the ocean . In his great mystic play , The Tempest , written ... poetry is of this elemental sort . Passage after passage - many examples I have quoted in this essay - describes the ...
... poet knows more keenly than Shakespeare the terrors of the ocean . In his great mystic play , The Tempest , written ... poetry is of this elemental sort . Passage after passage - many examples I have quoted in this essay - describes the ...
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... poets . There has been much listening to voices of the past . But strangely Shakespeare's , the most exalted of those ... poetry , has sought , in this small book , to distil the essence of his national message , prophetic of England's ...
... poets . There has been much listening to voices of the past . But strangely Shakespeare's , the most exalted of those ... poetry , has sought , in this small book , to distil the essence of his national message , prophetic of England's ...
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... poets . There has been much listening to voices of the past . But strangely Shakespeare's , the most exalted of those ... poetry , has sought , in this small book , to distil the essence of his national message , prophetic of England's ...
... poets . There has been much listening to voices of the past . But strangely Shakespeare's , the most exalted of those ... poetry , has sought , in this small book , to distil the essence of his national message , prophetic of England's ...
Common terms and phrases
1940 Reprinted Agincourt Armada armies awake Banquo Banquo's descendants BASIL BLACKWELL battle bless blesséd blood Bolingbroke Britain call'd condemnation Coriolanus crack of doom Cranmer's prophecy Crispian Cromwell crown deeply destiny doth enemies England must oppose England should act English king eyes Falstaff Farewell fear feeling fight Fortinbras France gentle glory God's HASTINGS hath head heaven Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII holy honour John of Gaunt knows last play Macbeth MENENIUS mercy Message for ENGLAND mother murders nobility peace perilous narrow ocean Perjury pity princes prophetic Queen realms under James religious Richard Richard II rouse royal sceptred isle Scotland sense of England's Shake Shakespeare shows SHAKESPEARIAN SICINIUS sleep soul Spanish Armada speaks speare's last speech sword tell the Dauphin thee thine Timon to-day truth two-fold balls tyrant union of realms victory voice of England whilst WILSON KNIGHT wins Wolsey words