The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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Page 79
... Spenser's Epithalamion , and put into his hands The Faerie Queene . In phrases as indispensable to the portrayer of ... Spenser . Yet , Spenser was to count for less in his poetry than other Eliza- bethans to whom Spenser led him ...
... Spenser's Epithalamion , and put into his hands The Faerie Queene . In phrases as indispensable to the portrayer of ... Spenser . Yet , Spenser was to count for less in his poetry than other Eliza- bethans to whom Spenser led him ...
Page 87
... Spenserian - shows , with certain archaisms , that Spenser was in his mind . But , Porphyro and Madeline are of a more breathing and human world than Spenser's ; their passion and their purity , the high chivalry , the awed rapture of ...
... Spenserian - shows , with certain archaisms , that Spenser was in his mind . But , Porphyro and Madeline are of a more breathing and human world than Spenser's ; their passion and their purity , the high chivalry , the awed rapture of ...
Page 177
... Spenser , Dryden , Pope , Gray , Cowper , Rousseau , Sterne , Fielding , Wordsworth . He had not the slightest reluctance to appropriate a phrase that he liked in any book which he read . One characteristic marks his style especially ...
... Spenser , Dryden , Pope , Gray , Cowper , Rousseau , Sterne , Fielding , Wordsworth . He had not the slightest reluctance to appropriate a phrase that he liked in any book which he read . One characteristic marks his style especially ...
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