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inauthor: English poets from books.google.com
Unsentimental, opinionated, and quotable, The Lives of the Poets continues to influence the reputations of the writers concerned. It is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most humanly diverting.
inauthor: English poets from books.google.com
... In author's vanity or pride an't bear a neighbour by his side , though he but delighted goes long the track which Nature shows , ior ever madly runs astray , Pocross his brother in his way . And some there are , whose narrow minds ...
inauthor: English poets from books.google.com
For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics.
inauthor: English poets from books.google.com
A delightful and comprehensive look at the lives and works of some of England's finest poets.
inauthor: English poets from books.google.com
"A version of this book was originally published by Ticknor & Fields, a division of Houghton Mifflin, in 1992 under the title Their Ancient Glittering Eyes."--Title page verso.
inauthor: English poets from books.google.com
In some 60 short episodes, this book captures moments of a writer's inner and public life, close moments with friends and strangers, occasional reminders of a poet's generally low place in the cultural hierarchy; time spent with cats; the ...
inauthor: English poets from books.google.com
... ENGLISH TRAVELLER 1633 Heywood's preface to this play is inter- esting , as it shows the heroic indifference about the opinion of posterity , which some of these great writers seem to have felt . There is a magnanimity in author- ship ...
inauthor: English poets from books.google.com
Using the poet's native Italian landscapes, Gilbert Highet recreates these poets in situ to evoke the essence of their work.
inauthor: English poets from books.google.com
... , or forc'd , Shaks .: Troil . and Cress . Act i . Sc . 3 Butler : Hudibras . Pt . ii . Canto i . Line 627 So the best things be said o ' the worst . 8974 They that do write in author's praises , And freely. POWER - PRAISE . 429.