A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 59
Page 718
... expression itself . The price paid for this advantage is that an analysis thus carried out is not laid within the plane of what is , after all , the constitutive fact of a work of art : its form . No doubt , form is bound up with ...
... expression itself . The price paid for this advantage is that an analysis thus carried out is not laid within the plane of what is , after all , the constitutive fact of a work of art : its form . No doubt , form is bound up with ...
Page 799
... expression , and it is in poetry that expression reaches its full artistic quality ; Pope had been the centre and lawgiver of his generation . Now , after him , no one comes for- ward to take up the inheritance which Dryden had handed ...
... expression , and it is in poetry that expression reaches its full artistic quality ; Pope had been the centre and lawgiver of his generation . Now , after him , no one comes for- ward to take up the inheritance which Dryden had handed ...
Page 1173
... expression . The attitude is that of ecstasy , or of an emotion deep enough to offer the characteristics of religious worship , while passion itself is sublimated into a spiritual exaltation . There is a persuasive atmosphere of calm ...
... expression . The attitude is that of ecstasy , or of an emotion deep enough to offer the characteristics of religious worship , while passion itself is sublimated into a spiritual exaltation . There is a persuasive atmosphere of calm ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
Copyright | |
43 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admirable allegory alliterative verse ancient Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon literature artistic ballad Battle of Maldon beauty Ben Jonson Beowulf Bible Byrhtnoth Cædmon century character charm Chaucer Christian classical comedy comic contemporary court critics Cynewulf death drama Dryden elements Elizabethan England English literature English poetry epic Essay euphuism faith feeling France French genius gives heart Henry honour imagination imitated influence inspired John Jonson king language Latin legend less literary lively lyrical marvellous Milton miracle plays modern moral nature original Oxford passages passion period Piers Plowman plays poem poet poetic Pope popular prose Puritan realism reign religious Renascence Restoration rhymes rhythm romances Saint satire Saxon scenes seems sentiment Shakespeare shows songs sonnets Spenser spirit stage stanzas story style Tamburlaine taste theatre theme Thomas thought tion tone tragedy translation trouvères verse versification vols whole words write written wrote