41) §4. Beginnings of Mysticism; "Songs of Innocence" and "Thel". IX. Blake.
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...greatness, ultimately turned to his undoing. In Poetical Sketches, his vision of life is direct and naοve: he delights in the physical attributes of nature, its breadth...
42) §1. Lydgate. VIII. The English Chaucerians. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle
Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An
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...down to Chalmers s Poets. During the last fifteen years, the Early English Text Society has given us The Temple of Glass, The Secrets of the Philosophers (finished...
43) §23. Robert Fergusson: his personality and poetic qualities. XIV. Scottish
Popular Poetry before Burns. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and
Swift. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An
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...to the old alternatively riming octave; and his other staves are the octosyllabic and heroic couplets, which he also used for English verse. The most notable of his...
44) §19. Thomas Warton the Younger and his Poems. X. The Literary Influence of
the Middle Ages. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of
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...and Milton, rather than that of Pope. The old English poetry which he studied and described in his history had not much direct influence on his own compositions;...
45) §11. The Ballads and Poems in "The Chronicle". VII. From Alfred to the
Conquest. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The
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...[char]aet bryd ealo [char]aet waes manegra manna bealo. shows, unmistakeably, its ballad origin. 88 The last verses of this class are those on the reign of William...
46) §6. The Battle of the Couplets : Waller and Cowley. IX. The Prosody of the
Seventeenth Century. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of
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...strongly to popular favour) of limitation of sense to a manageable modicum of metre. 13 The history of this battle of the couplets, as it has been termed, turns on...
47) §8. Osbern Bokenam. VIII. The English Chaucerians. Vol. 2. The End of the
Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An
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...by, or for, a certain Thomas (not Benet) Burgh, in 1447, are written entirely in Chaucerian decasyllabic verse, differently arranged as regards line group, but fairly...
48) §10. The Verse-tales. II. Byron. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The
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...adventure and romantic colour. But, whereas Scott sought his themes chiefly in the pages of history, Byron was content to draw largely upon personal experience; instead...
49) §5. "Sigurd the Volsung". V. The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne, and
Others. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of
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...classical epic led to his translations of The Aeneids of Virgil, in 1875, and the Odyssey in 1887, the first of which, at any rate, showed an appreciation of the...
50) §11. The Pindaric of Cowley and his Followers. IX. The Prosody of the
Seventeenth Century. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of
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...and antistrophe, and no regular division of strophe, antistrophe and epode. It was merely a fortuitous string of stanzas, of unequal but considerable length, individually...
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