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... verse . It was the custom for poets to compose " sequences " of sonnets- each little fourteen- line poem complete within itself , but the whole series of sonnets more or less related in theme . A few of Spenser's Amoretti ( as he calls ...
... verse . It was the custom for poets to compose " sequences " of sonnets- each little fourteen- line poem complete within itself , but the whole series of sonnets more or less related in theme . A few of Spenser's Amoretti ( as he calls ...
Page 278
... verse which satisfied them best . Earlier English poets , said Dryden , had written " nothing so even , sweet and flowing as Mr. Waller . " The editor of Waller's Poems ( 1690 ) called him " the parent of English verse and the first ...
... verse which satisfied them best . Earlier English poets , said Dryden , had written " nothing so even , sweet and flowing as Mr. Waller . " The editor of Waller's Poems ( 1690 ) called him " the parent of English verse and the first ...
Page 346
... verse known as " Dods- ley's Miscellany , " only two - William Collins ( 1721- 1759 ) and Thomas Gray ( 1716-1771 ) have won lasting fame . Like Joseph Warton and the other " enthusiasts , " Collins and Gray found the form of verse ...
... verse known as " Dods- ley's Miscellany , " only two - William Collins ( 1721- 1759 ) and Thomas Gray ( 1716-1771 ) have won lasting fame . Like Joseph Warton and the other " enthusiasts , " Collins and Gray found the form of verse ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
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