Introduction to English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonShaw, 1855 - 234 pagini |
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Pagina 14
... Byron gave utterance to his passionate poetry : it was for all Christian readers that Southey , in his " Eastern Epics , " interwove , with the heathen fable , bright threads of the glory of the Christian faith ; and it is for every one ...
... Byron gave utterance to his passionate poetry : it was for all Christian readers that Southey , in his " Eastern Epics , " interwove , with the heathen fable , bright threads of the glory of the Christian faith ; and it is for every one ...
Pagina 44
... BYRON - LANDOR - ColeridgE'S CRISTABEL- THE SONG IN THE MIND " -HOOD - THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS . THE subject which I propose for this evening's lecture is the study of the power of the English language in prose and verse . My desire to say ...
... BYRON - LANDOR - ColeridgE'S CRISTABEL- THE SONG IN THE MIND " -HOOD - THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS . THE subject which I propose for this evening's lecture is the study of the power of the English language in prose and verse . My desire to say ...
Pagina 56
... Byron , Southey , and Wordsworth , have displayed high power as prose - writers . It is sometimes supposed that the laws of metrical language must , of necessity , produce a style more or less artificial , and therefore alien from prose ...
... Byron , Southey , and Wordsworth , have displayed high power as prose - writers . It is sometimes supposed that the laws of metrical language must , of necessity , produce a style more or less artificial , and therefore alien from prose ...
Pagina 58
... Byron's poetry - his eminently English choice of words . One short passage of Mr. Landor's Poems will serve to show the metrical effect of simple words of one syllable . In the sentence I am about to quote , out of thirty such words ...
... Byron's poetry - his eminently English choice of words . One short passage of Mr. Landor's Poems will serve to show the metrical effect of simple words of one syllable . In the sentence I am about to quote , out of thirty such words ...
Pagina 59
... Byron , as to prompt them both to some of their own finest effusions ; I refer to Coleridge's Christabel , in which a variety of line and rhyme , and even blank verse is wrought into a marvellous unity - nowhere more than in that ...
... Byron , as to prompt them both to some of their own finest effusions ; I refer to Coleridge's Christabel , in which a variety of line and rhyme , and even blank verse is wrought into a marvellous unity - nowhere more than in that ...
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