The Batsford Book of English Poetry: Chaucer to ArnoldA compendium of English poetry from Chaucer to Matthew Arnold based on syllabus requirements from O Level to post A Level. It includes short lyrics, complete books and long epic poems. |
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Page 356
... hail Infernal world , and thou profoundest hell Receive thy new possessor : one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a heaven of hell , a hell of heaven .
... hail Infernal world , and thou profoundest hell Receive thy new possessor : one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a heaven of hell , a hell of heaven .
Page 434
See with what heat these dogs of hell advance To waste and havoc yonder world , which I So fair and good created , and had still Kept in that state , had not the folly of man 620 Let in these wasteful furies , who impute Folly to me ...
See with what heat these dogs of hell advance To waste and havoc yonder world , which I So fair and good created , and had still Kept in that state , had not the folly of man 620 Let in these wasteful furies , who impute Folly to me ...
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Sin and Death sitting till then at the gates of hell , by wondrous sympathy feeling the success of Satan in this new world , and the sin by man there committed , resolve to sit no longer confined in hell , but to follow Satan their sire ...
Sin and Death sitting till then at the gates of hell , by wondrous sympathy feeling the success of Satan in this new world , and the sin by man there committed , resolve to sit no longer confined in hell , but to follow Satan their sire ...
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Contents
1020 | 62 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson 180992 | 1005 |
Robert Browning 181289 | 1064 |
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Common terms and phrases
angels arms bear beauty breath bring cause cloud dark dead dear death deep delight doth dream earth eyes face fair fall father fear feel field fire flowers force gentle give grace green hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart heaven hell holy hope hour King Lady leave less light live look Lord lost mind move nature never night o'er once pain passed rest round seemed sense side sight sing sleep song soon soul sound spirit stand stars stood strength sweet tears tell thee things thou thought Till tree turned unto voice wind wings woods
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Batsford Book of English Poetry: Chaucer to Arnold |
| Editor | Barbara Lloyd Evans |
| Publisher | Batsford, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 22 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0713456701, 9780713456707 |
| Length | 1200 pages |
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