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Six Centuries Of Great Poetry
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Author : Robert Penn Warren
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 2000-10-01
Six Centuries Of Great Poetry written by Robert Penn Warren and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-01 with Poetry categories.
Collects poems from more than one hundred English poets, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Yeats, and charts the evolution of lyric poetry over the last six centuries.
Six Centuries Of Great Poetry
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Author : Robert Penn Warren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Six Centuries Of Great Poetry written by Robert Penn Warren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with English poetry categories.
Classic British Poetry
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Author : Industrial Systems Research
language : en
Publisher: Industrial Systems Research
Release Date : 2023-09-05
Classic British Poetry written by Industrial Systems Research and has been published by Industrial Systems Research this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Literary Collections categories.
In the ISR Modernized Poetic Masterpieces series – beautifully readable modern prose translations of renowned verses from the 14th to the 19th centuries Classic poems are priceless cultural artifacts – on par with great books, paintings, musical compositions, and films. They help communicate the beliefs, values, and experiences of people from bygone eras. They provide insights into different times, places, and circumstances that resonate even today. Classic verses not only connect us to the general cultures of countries but also the diverse attitudes and opinions of individuals within those cultural contexts. Nonetheless, understanding such verses can be challenging because of archaic words, outdated grammar, or complex and unconventional syntax. This book presents around 800 significant British poems dating from the Middle Ages to late Victorian times modernized in prose format to improve their readability and understandability. By definition, classic poems have garnered much acclaim over the years. They may have excelled in capturing the essence of individual emotions or made observations and comments in remarkably vibrant ways. Overall, this anthology represents a diverse group of authors with some extraordinary abilities and insights into nature, individuals, society, politics, and a range of other matters. In the NATURE chapter, the collection includes outstanding poems from luminaries such as William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. It also features many less-known writers who have drawn inspiration from the awe-inspiring beauty, changing seasons, and landscapes of the natural world. After nature, LOVE AND ROMANCE has been another perennially important theme in British poetry. The anthology features poems by William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and many others on the intense yearnings, hopes, and sorrows of lovers. Relations with nature and experiences of love, rejection, health, and DEATH AND MORTALITY are major sources of human HAPPINESS AND SORROW. Many poets have explored these subjects – often connecting them with SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION. From Chaucer and Milton to Wordsworth and Gray, writers have fearlessly confronted significant SOCIAL AND POLITICAL concerns. They have spoken about rights and freedoms, tyranny, justice and injustice, and the nature and causes of WAR AND CONFLICT. British poetry has featured many captivating stories about individual courage and moral problems, hope, love, and the triumphing of good over evil. Finally, poets have often found inspiration in MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE. They have used ancient tales, legends, and folklore as foundations for fresh stories and commentaries on contemporary themes. Some verses blend multiple styles. Individual writers have developed new genres and experimented with novel lyric forms and content materials. Nonetheless, certain great themes and preoccupations have remained remarkably consistent in poetic literature over the centuries.
British Poems
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Author : Percy Adams Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-05
British Poems written by Percy Adams Hutchinson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05 with Poetry categories.
Excerpt from British Poems: From "Canterbury Tales" To "Recessional" For this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from the Thirteenth Century to this closing year of the Nineteenth, and to choose the best. Nor have I sought in these Islands only, but wheresoever the Muse has followed the tongue which among living tongues she most delights to honour. To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in some young minds not yet initiated. My scheme is simple. I have arranged the poets as nearly as possible m order of birth, with such groupings of anonymous pieces as seemed convenient. For convenience, too, as well as to avoid a dispute royal, I have gathered the most of the Ballads into the middle of the Seventeenth Century; where they fill a languid interval between two winds of inspiration - the Italian dying down with Milton and the French following at the heels of the restored Royalists. For convenience, again, I have set myself certain rules of spelling. In the very earliest poems inflection and spelling are structural, and to modernize is to destroy. But as old inflections fade into modern the old spelling becomes less and less vital, and has been brought (not, I hope, too abruptly) into line with that sanctioned by use and familiar. To do this seemed wiser than to discourage many readers for the sake of diverting others by a scent of antiquity which - to be essential - should breathe of something rarer than an odd arrangement of type. But there are scholars whom I cannot expect to agree with me; and to conciliate them I have excepted Spenser and Milton from the rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Six Centuries Of Great Poetry
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Author : Robert Penn Warren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01
Six Centuries Of Great Poetry written by Robert Penn Warren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01 with categories.
Selections From The British Poets Classic Reprint
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Author : Eliza Woodworth
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-28
Selections From The British Poets Classic Reprint written by Eliza Woodworth and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-28 with Poetry categories.
Excerpt from Selections From the British Poets In fellowship, and pilgrims were they all That toward Canterbury wolden ride. The chambers and the stables weren wide, And well we weren eased atte beste. And shortly, when the sun was gone to reste, So had I spoken with them every one, That I was of their fellowship anon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Beauties Of The British Poets
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Author : George Croly
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-02
The Beauties Of The British Poets written by George Croly and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with Poetry categories.
Excerpt from The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations Chaucer was the earliest successful cultivator of the harmony of the English language. His quaintnesses and occasional irregularities of thought and diction, belong to his time; but he has passages of copious and honeyed sweetness that belong to the finest poetic perception alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An Essay On English Poetry
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Author : Thomas Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-22
An Essay On English Poetry written by Thomas Campbell and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-22 with categories.
Excerpt from An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets It is li ely that the Normans would have taught us the use of rhyme amazqnmmwhcthertg'esehadbeen known or not to thean lo ans re nquest. T respectmg' Mr. T whitt's poem on we owe all our forms of verse and the use of rh yerentirely to the Nor mans, I trust the reader will pardon me for innotlrildingamere doubt one cubjectwhicheannot be interestingtomany. With respectto rh e, i might In some stress on the authority of Mr. Turner. Who, in his istory of the ngllo-saxons, ' says that the Anglaxon versification possessed occasional r yme; but as he admits that rhyme formed no rt its con ttituent character, for fear of assuming too much. Let it be 'tted that we have no extant specimensof rhyme m our language hem: the Conquest. One stanza of ahallad shall indeed be mentioned, as an exception to this, whichmaybeadmitted or rejected at the reader'spleasnre. Inthemean timeletitberecollecwd, that.ifwehavenotrh inthevernacularverse, wehaveexamplesot'it inthe poetry oftheangzlo-samn churchmen - shun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Key To Modern British Poetry Classic Reprint
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Author : Lawrence Durrell
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-04-22
A Key To Modern British Poetry Classic Reprint written by Lawrence Durrell and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-22 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from A Key to Modern British Poetry This book, now divided for the sake of convenience into essays, is not one which I would have written for choice. It was composed and delivered as a series of lectures on modern poetry during the course of my duties as a lecturer in English Literature attached to the British Council in Argentina during 1948. The present text, which has hardly been altered at all, is what typographers would call a 'mock-up' for the lectures which were designed to appeal to an audience of graduate teachers in English, gathered from the various universities of Argentina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Treasury Of Minor British Poetry
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Author : J. Churton Collins
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-30
A Treasury Of Minor British Poetry written by J. Churton Collins and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with Poetry categories.
Excerpt from A Treasury of Minor British Poetry: Selected and Arranged With Notes But I have confined my area within stricter limits still. Where a poet has only written two or three good things, which have gone the round of the anthologies, I have omitted him. Where a poet's work has been abundant I have carefully avoided the gems with which every one is familiar, and have chosen what seemed to me best in the residue. I have thus had to deprive my book of many diamonds, but I hope I have secured in their place as many excellent pearls. RI have not, it is true, excluded all poems which are familiar even to the general reader. I have inserted for instance Logan's Braes of Yarrow and Ode to t/ze Cuckoo, but I have done my utmost to avoid what is trite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.