The Story of English LiteratureThe function of an introduction to English literature is to interest students in the content and spirit of great books and their relation to their times and to one another. |
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Page 175
... poetry in his own compositions . As teachers of the art of poetry , he believed that " Horace and he that taught him , Aristotle , deserve to be the first in estimation . " His comedies ( page 108 ) he modeled upon those of the Latin ...
... poetry in his own compositions . As teachers of the art of poetry , he believed that " Horace and he that taught him , Aristotle , deserve to be the first in estimation . " His comedies ( page 108 ) he modeled upon those of the Latin ...
Page 422
... poetry is in the Wordsworthian spirit , selected from the vast and uneven mass of Wordsworth's work a little volume ... Poetry . " That is still the way in which all thoughtful lovers of poetry feel about Wordsworth to - day ; and in the ...
... poetry is in the Wordsworthian spirit , selected from the vast and uneven mass of Wordsworth's work a little volume ... Poetry . " That is still the way in which all thoughtful lovers of poetry feel about Wordsworth to - day ; and in the ...
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... poetry . You will enjoy most the tale , written in stately blank verse , of " Sohrab and Rustum , " and the meditative beauty of " The Scholar Gipsy . " To his collected Poems of 1853 , he prefixed an essay on The Choice of Subjects in ...
... poetry . You will enjoy most the tale , written in stately blank verse , of " Sohrab and Rustum , " and the meditative beauty of " The Scholar Gipsy . " To his collected Poems of 1853 , he prefixed an essay on The Choice of Subjects in ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
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