An Apology for PoetryBobbs-Merrill, 1970 - 95 pages |
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Page xviii
... English poetry and poetic theory in the period that preceded the composition of the Apology . Since Chaucer there had been no English poet to compare with the masters of French and Italian poetry . The partial glory of Wyatt and Surrey ...
... English poetry and poetic theory in the period that preceded the composition of the Apology . Since Chaucer there had been no English poet to compare with the masters of French and Italian poetry . The partial glory of Wyatt and Surrey ...
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... English meters , though his enterprise was not without consider- able precedent . See Ringler's notes ( Poems , pp . 500 ff . ) , and Hallett Smith , " English Metrical Psalms in the Sixteenth Century and Their Literary Significance ...
... English meters , though his enterprise was not without consider- able precedent . See Ringler's notes ( Poems , pp . 500 ff . ) , and Hallett Smith , " English Metrical Psalms in the Sixteenth Century and Their Literary Significance ...
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... English tragedies . Thomas Norton ( 1532-1584 ) wrote the first three acts , and Thomas Sackville ( see n . 390 , above ) the last two . The play had its model in the tragedies of Seneca ( ca. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65 ) , whose elaborately ...
... English tragedies . Thomas Norton ( 1532-1584 ) wrote the first three acts , and Thomas Sackville ( see n . 390 , above ) the last two . The play had its model in the tragedies of Seneca ( ca. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65 ) , whose elaborately ...
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