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 1 |
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... published his Diana , a collection of twenty - three sonnets ; two years later , the second edition , containing seventy- six , but some of these were by his friend Sir Philip Sidney and other poets . " The Shepheards Song of Venus and ...
... published his Diana , a collection of twenty - three sonnets ; two years later , the second edition , containing seventy- six , but some of these were by his friend Sir Philip Sidney and other poets . " The Shepheards Song of Venus and ...
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... published Daphnaïda , an elegy in memo- rial of Douglas Howard Gorges , the only daughter of Lord Bindon . This is a good example of his less personal manner in funereal poetry , sedate , fluent , and elegant , but too much taken up ...
... published Daphnaïda , an elegy in memo- rial of Douglas Howard Gorges , the only daughter of Lord Bindon . This is a good example of his less personal manner in funereal poetry , sedate , fluent , and elegant , but too much taken up ...
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... published in the first folio edition of the works in 1623 . Shakespeare's next play , The Comedy of Errors , also first published in 1623 , was for the most part a boisterous farce , resembling in subject - matter the Menæchmi of ...
... published in the first folio edition of the works in 1623 . Shakespeare's next play , The Comedy of Errors , also first published in 1623 , was for the most part a boisterous farce , resembling in subject - matter the Menæchmi of ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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