Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... English poetry of his own century . The only notable work - Sackville's solemn Induction in a mediaeval survival , the Myrrour for Magistrates , and the Songes and Sonettes which represent the lyrical energy and the sporadic culture of ...
... English poetry of his own century . The only notable work - Sackville's solemn Induction in a mediaeval survival , the Myrrour for Magistrates , and the Songes and Sonettes which represent the lyrical energy and the sporadic culture of ...
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... English Poet , was written before The Shepheardes Calender was published . Not that theorists and rhetoricians solved all his problems ; much labour went in experiment until he had worked out a medium of verse and language , and still ...
... English Poet , was written before The Shepheardes Calender was published . Not that theorists and rhetoricians solved all his problems ; much labour went in experiment until he had worked out a medium of verse and language , and still ...
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... English tongue a gallimaufray or hodgepodge of al other speches . Other some not so wel seene in the English tonge as perhaps in other languages , 30 if they happen to here an olde word albeit very naturall and significant , crye out ...
... English tongue a gallimaufray or hodgepodge of al other speches . Other some not so wel seene in the English tonge as perhaps in other languages , 30 if they happen to here an olde word albeit very naturall and significant , crye out ...
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