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PREFACE The lyrical poetry of the period drawn upon by this volume has been well presented in a number of anthologies ; but so far as we are aware , no previous anthology has given an adequate representation of the rich store of non ...
PREFACE The lyrical poetry of the period drawn upon by this volume has been well presented in a number of anthologies ; but so far as we are aware , no previous anthology has given an adequate representation of the rich store of non ...
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121-122 o sweet woods ] This represents the poet's experimentation with classical meters . The particular meter here used is the asclepiad , named after its inventor , the Greek poet Asclepiades . In the Arcadia the poem is introduced ...
121-122 o sweet woods ] This represents the poet's experimentation with classical meters . The particular meter here used is the asclepiad , named after its inventor , the Greek poet Asclepiades . In the Arcadia the poem is introduced ...
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His non - dramatic work comprises about a dozen published volumes , some in poetry and some in prose , including a number of ... He twice refers to a manuscript volume he had written , The Lives of All the Poets , Foreign and Modern ...
His non - dramatic work comprises about a dozen published volumes , some in poetry and some in prose , including a number of ... He twice refers to a manuscript volume he had written , The Lives of All the Poets , Foreign and Modern ...
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JOHN SKELTON | 3 |
SIR THOMAS MORE | 9 |
HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY | 27 |
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