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... Poetry of Alexander Pope 249 Rise of the English Novel 265 Essayists of the Second Half 281 The Romantic Movement in English Poetry 303 VI . THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . 316 The New Poetry : Wordsworth , Coleridge . The Romantic Movement in ...
... Poetry of Alexander Pope 249 Rise of the English Novel 265 Essayists of the Second Half 281 The Romantic Movement in English Poetry 303 VI . THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . 316 The New Poetry : Wordsworth , Coleridge . The Romantic Movement in ...
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... Poetry . III . Anglo - Saxon Prose . IV . The Nation and the Language . By the term Literature is meant those written or printed compositions which preserve the thought and experience of a race recorded Literature . in artistic form ...
... Poetry . III . Anglo - Saxon Prose . IV . The Nation and the Language . By the term Literature is meant those written or printed compositions which preserve the thought and experience of a race recorded Literature . in artistic form ...
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... poetry is the rough vigor , the intense energy , of its homely but effective style . There is virile strength and power in its movement , its emphasis , imagery , and theme . If one reads these ancient memorials of our forefathers Poetry ...
... poetry is the rough vigor , the intense energy , of its homely but effective style . There is virile strength and power in its movement , its emphasis , imagery , and theme . If one reads these ancient memorials of our forefathers Poetry ...
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... poet of the soil , who sang because he was commanded . Thus has it ever been when the unaffected poetry of nature has its birth . Cynewulf , 750 . Aside from Cędmon , the only one of the Old Eng- lish poets known to us by name is ...
... poet of the soil , who sang because he was commanded . Thus has it ever been when the unaffected poetry of nature has its birth . Cynewulf , 750 . Aside from Cędmon , the only one of the Old Eng- lish poets known to us by name is ...
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... poetry . " Dear the welcomed one To the Frisian wife , when the Floater's drawn on shore , When his keel comes back , and her churl returns to home , Her's , her own food - giver . And she prays him in , Washes then his weedy coat , and ...
... poetry . " Dear the welcomed one To the Frisian wife , when the Floater's drawn on shore , When his keel comes back , and her churl returns to home , Her's , her own food - giver . And she prays him in , Washes then his weedy coat , and ...
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