The Book of Elizabethan VerseWilliam Stanley Braithwaite |
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... poems of striking value and interest which have escaped all their previous read- ing . The sonorous epithet of “ Elizabethan " is commonly ap- plied to the epoch to which this volume is substantially con- fined . Yet it will always ...
... poems of striking value and interest which have escaped all their previous read- ing . The sonorous epithet of “ Elizabethan " is commonly ap- plied to the epoch to which this volume is substantially con- fined . Yet it will always ...
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... poets born as late as the eighteenth year of the seventeenth century . While these dates are the indicative horizon lines of the opening and close of the period , the selections are really chosen from the contributions of one hundred ...
... poets born as late as the eighteenth year of the seventeenth century . While these dates are the indicative horizon lines of the opening and close of the period , the selections are really chosen from the contributions of one hundred ...
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... poems to complement any fact of historical significance . It being true as has been said by a contemporary critic , that the Age was one when verse was " used as speech , and becomes song by way of speech , " there could be nothing ...
... poems to complement any fact of historical significance . It being true as has been said by a contemporary critic , that the Age was one when verse was " used as speech , and becomes song by way of speech , " there could be nothing ...
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... poems I have followed roughly a general scheme ; not too closely nor with the absolute formality of a flower - shop ... poem which owes its discovery and publication to his loving and tireless labours , I wish here for all , to express ...
... poems I have followed roughly a general scheme ; not too closely nor with the absolute formality of a flower - shop ... poem which owes its discovery and publication to his loving and tireless labours , I wish here for all , to express ...
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... poem Of Misery ' on page 570 , and Wisdome's A Religious Use of Taking Tobacco on page 547 , both of which I had not ... Poets , Dr. Arber's British Anthologies ( Wyat and Surrey , Spenser , Shakespeare and Jonson ) , Mr. Bullen's ...
... poem Of Misery ' on page 570 , and Wisdome's A Religious Use of Taking Tobacco on page 547 , both of which I had not ... Poets , Dr. Arber's British Anthologies ( Wyat and Surrey , Spenser , Shakespeare and Jonson ) , Mr. Bullen's ...
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