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... poems was coming in . He wrote no more long poems , but was kept cheerfully busy with a translation of Homer . Alexander Selkirk , which has been quoted in connexion with Robinson Crusoe , and The Loss of the Royal George were among the ...
... poems was coming in . He wrote no more long poems , but was kept cheerfully busy with a translation of Homer . Alexander Selkirk , which has been quoted in connexion with Robinson Crusoe , and The Loss of the Royal George were among the ...
Page 417
... poems in his pocket , and there followed two hard and bitter years , in which more than once he came very near to starvation . He managed to get one poem published , but very little notice was taken of it , and it brought him in no ...
... poems in his pocket , and there followed two hard and bitter years , in which more than once he came very near to starvation . He managed to get one poem published , but very little notice was taken of it , and it brought him in no ...
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... poems came out in two volumes toward the end of the year . The general reading public took little notice of it , but true poetry lovers agreed that here was a new and a great poet arisen among them . Some of Tennyson's finest poems are ...
... poems came out in two volumes toward the end of the year . The general reading public took little notice of it , but true poetry lovers agreed that here was a new and a great poet arisen among them . Some of Tennyson's finest poems are ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE LAYS OF THE FIGHTINGMEN | 13 |
THE SINGERS OF THE CHURCH | 26 |
THE MONKS AND THEIR BOOKS | 32 |
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