A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... Court Poets . Raleigh , Oxford , Fulke Greville.- Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552 ? -1618 ) was near Lyly , Sidney , and Spenser in age and Spenser's friend , and was , like them all , connected with the court . He was occasionally a poet ...
... Court Poets . Raleigh , Oxford , Fulke Greville.- Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552 ? -1618 ) was near Lyly , Sidney , and Spenser in age and Spenser's friend , and was , like them all , connected with the court . He was occasionally a poet ...
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... court was greedy of dramatic representation , and some playwrights addressed themselves to satisfying the more refined tastes of the queen and the courtiers . It was naturally at the court or before the court that truly artistic drama ...
... court was greedy of dramatic representation , and some playwrights addressed themselves to satisfying the more refined tastes of the queen and the courtiers . It was naturally at the court or before the court that truly artistic drama ...
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... court . A poet laureate should show both skill and self - command if he is engaged in strife during his tenure of office . This is the explanation of the superiority of art in Dryden's satires . At times the violence of his tone is ...
... court . A poet laureate should show both skill and self - command if he is engaged in strife during his tenure of office . This is the explanation of the superiority of art in Dryden's satires . At times the violence of his tone is ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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