2) §8. "The Mistress". III. Writers of the Couplet. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of his love-poems, is one of the best examples of English vers de société in any age. The stanzas On the Death of Mr. William Hervey, though disfigured by at least...

3) §9. Marlowe s non-dramatic writings. VII. Marlowe and Kyd. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...the 1599 text in The Passionate Pilgrim), and the fragment I walked along a stream for pureness rare, in England s Parnassus. 10 The nearly simultaneous publication...

4) §17. Walter Kennedy. X. The Scottish Chaucerians. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...s work. The subjects are of the familiar fifteenth century types, and, when not concerned with the rougher popular matter, repeat the old plaints on the ways of courts...

5) Li Po. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...verses expressing thoughts on actual events, Li Po is best known for his pieces describing voyages through imaginary landscapes, invoking exotic Taoist images and...

6) Donne, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...often obscure, Donne's style is characterized by a brilliant use of paradox, hyperbole, and imagery. His most famous poems include "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,"...

7) §9. Thomas Carew. I. Cavalier Lyrists. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and striven successfully, to introduce into English lyric poetry. Carew s love-poems are not always free from that hyperbole which was then the fashion; and, in his...

8) §5. His Powers and Influence as a Satirist. III. Political and Ecclesiastical Satire. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and piecemeal; he scorn d retail I th trade of Death: whole myriads dy d by th great, Soon as one single life; so quick their fate, Their very pray rs and wishes...

9) §3. "Heroick Stanzas" on Cromwell. I. Dryden. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...as it seems to have been in his personal bearing. Shadwell s sneer that Dryden had turn d journeyman to a bookseller probably applies to a rather later period of...

10) §6. Dryden s Flattery of them. VIII. The Court Poets. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...friend, he lays the foundation of error. He congratulates himself that he was inspired to foretell Buckhurst to mankind, as the restorer of poetry, the greatest genius,...