Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... poets from Homer to du Bartas ; and it is well to realize , what a century of ' romantic ' criticism has obscured , that this was deliberate . Spenser was ' the new poet ' , but he was twenty - seven years of age , in a time when men ...
... poets from Homer to du Bartas ; and it is well to realize , what a century of ' romantic ' criticism has obscured , that this was deliberate . Spenser was ' the new poet ' , but he was twenty - seven years of age , in a time when men ...
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... Poet's Poet ' . He has had more idolatry and imitation from his brethren than all the rest put together . The old undramatic poets , Drayton , Browne , Drummond , Giles and Phineas Fletcher , were as full of him as the dramatic were of ...
... Poet's Poet ' . He has had more idolatry and imitation from his brethren than all the rest put together . The old undramatic poets , Drayton , Browne , Drummond , Giles and Phineas Fletcher , were as full of him as the dramatic were of ...
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... Poets work : as so renowmed and ennobled onely by hys meanes . Which being declared in a most eloquent Oration of ... Poet Pindarus was borne in that citie , not onely commaunded streightly , that no man should upon payne of death do ...
... Poets work : as so renowmed and ennobled onely by hys meanes . Which being declared in a most eloquent Oration of ... Poet Pindarus was borne in that citie , not onely commaunded streightly , that no man should upon payne of death do ...
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