A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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Page 295
... whole of his very diverse work shows an abundant fancy , active and animated , but not subtle . He versifies with extreme facility . Reading certain of his poems , for instance the ode on the battle of Agincourt , we are carried away by ...
... whole of his very diverse work shows an abundant fancy , active and animated , but not subtle . He versifies with extreme facility . Reading certain of his poems , for instance the ode on the battle of Agincourt , we are carried away by ...
Page 770
... whole - in the sense in which it stretches down to the common people - is not without sharing in this progress . The centre of social gravity tends to shift in the direction of some human elements , whose formation , modern and urban as ...
... whole - in the sense in which it stretches down to the common people - is not without sharing in this progress . The centre of social gravity tends to shift in the direction of some human elements , whose formation , modern and urban as ...
Page 1092
... whole series of kindred publications , reflect this dis- turbed spirit , which is not without an influence on the whole of literature ; and a special form of Romanticism , fed by the emotional unrest in the social sphere , derives a ...
... whole series of kindred publications , reflect this dis- turbed spirit , which is not without an influence on the whole of literature ; and a special form of Romanticism , fed by the emotional unrest in the social sphere , derives a ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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