Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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Page vii
... writers who used to be called Anglo - Saxon - Cadmon , Bæda , Alfred , and the rest are dealt with by Dr Stopford Brooke . Mr A. W. Pollard has charged him- self with Middle English and almost all the writers down to Reformation times ...
... writers who used to be called Anglo - Saxon - Cadmon , Bæda , Alfred , and the rest are dealt with by Dr Stopford Brooke . Mr A. W. Pollard has charged him- self with Middle English and almost all the writers down to Reformation times ...
Page viii
... Writers , on the Elizabethan Sonnet- Cycles ; as also on Sir Philip Sidney the poet , Spenser , Webster , Ford , and Shirley . Mr Gosse has also revised , as amended and retained from the old edition ... writing in dialect , are viii Preface.
... Writers , on the Elizabethan Sonnet- Cycles ; as also on Sir Philip Sidney the poet , Spenser , Webster , Ford , and Shirley . Mr Gosse has also revised , as amended and retained from the old edition ... writing in dialect , are viii Preface.
Page ix
... writing in dialect , are fully naturalised in the British republic of letters . The Irish have no monopoly of Celtic ... writers than from the ancient Irish bards or story - tellers . Happily there is no risk of Irishmen becoming ...
... writing in dialect , are fully naturalised in the British republic of letters . The Irish have no monopoly of Celtic ... writers than from the ancient Irish bards or story - tellers . Happily there is no risk of Irishmen becoming ...
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... writing of it in England is to be traced to the influence on Northumbria and Mercia of the Celtic poets . But I also ... writer to join him in the foreign land where he waits for her : ' Come in the spring , when the cuckoo calls from ...
... writing of it in England is to be traced to the influence on Northumbria and Mercia of the Celtic poets . But I also ... writer to join him in the foreign land where he waits for her : ' Come in the spring , when the cuckoo calls from ...
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... writing poetry grew , other forms were developed - poems of a half- epic character , and narrative poems with ... writer uses the greatest freedom with his subject , inventing , expanding , elaborately exalting his descriptions ...
... writing poetry grew , other forms were developed - poems of a half- epic character , and narrative poems with ... writer uses the greatest freedom with his subject , inventing , expanding , elaborately exalting his descriptions ...
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