English LiteratureScott, Foresman, 1905 - 452 pages A textbook for English Literature covering the Old, Middle, and Modern English Periods. Also contains notes and chronology charts on both principal and minor authors. |
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Page 60
... Arnold would deny to Chaucer ; and he did not have it in the sense in which Dante and Shakespeare have it . It is on this side that his limitations are most apparent . But court poet though he was , removed from close contact with the ...
... Arnold would deny to Chaucer ; and he did not have it in the sense in which Dante and Shakespeare have it . It is on this side that his limitations are most apparent . But court poet though he was , removed from close contact with the ...
Page 70
... Arnold , Morris , and Swinburne , has afforded both matter and inspiration . Recurring now to poetry , we find at the turning of the cen- tury somewhat better conditions than had yet obtained since the death of Chaucer . The fact that ...
... Arnold , Morris , and Swinburne , has afforded both matter and inspiration . Recurring now to poetry , we find at the turning of the cen- tury somewhat better conditions than had yet obtained since the death of Chaucer . The fact that ...
Page 154
... Arnold , was beyond the reach of Chaucer , but was given to poets like Homer and Shakespeare , Dante and Milton . In pure moral loftiness indeed , we must account Dante and Milton supreme , the one the poet of medieval Europe , the ...
... Arnold , was beyond the reach of Chaucer , but was given to poets like Homer and Shakespeare , Dante and Milton . In pure moral loftiness indeed , we must account Dante and Milton supreme , the one the poet of medieval Europe , the ...
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... Arnold of Rugby , and his son , delighted to spend their vacations in his neighborhood ; pilgrims , like Emerson , were drawn from afar . And on Southey's death in 1843 , he received the national honor of the Poet - laure- ateship . By ...
... Arnold of Rugby , and his son , delighted to spend their vacations in his neighborhood ; pilgrims , like Emerson , were drawn from afar . And on Southey's death in 1843 , he received the national honor of the Poet - laure- ateship . By ...
Page 239
... Arnold , one of his truest disciples , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , 1772-1834 . " may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force ; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power ? " Samuel ...
... Arnold , one of his truest disciples , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , 1772-1834 . " may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force ; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power ? " Samuel ...
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