The Concise Encyclopedia of English and American Poets and PoetryStephen Spender (ed), Donald Hall Alphabetically arranged account of poets and analyses of their poetry. |
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... sonnets . His travels abroad on embassies to France , Italy and Spain might have made him a suitable interpreter of the new ... sonnet- sequence , and his Arcadia , with its incidental poems set in a prose narrative , is almost its only ...
... sonnets . His travels abroad on embassies to France , Italy and Spain might have made him a suitable interpreter of the new ... sonnet- sequence , and his Arcadia , with its incidental poems set in a prose narrative , is almost its only ...
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... sonnet became a trumpet - " Avenge O Lord thy slaughter'd Saints " . Techni- cally , the heroic sonnets point towards the grand epic style in such modes of elevation as periphrasis and inversion ; and , despite the rhyme scheme , run ...
... sonnet became a trumpet - " Avenge O Lord thy slaughter'd Saints " . Techni- cally , the heroic sonnets point towards the grand epic style in such modes of elevation as periphrasis and inversion ; and , despite the rhyme scheme , run ...
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... sonnet , 264 Tate , Allen , 141–2 , 229 , 326–7 , illustration 341 , books 389 Taylor , Edward , 26 , 27 , 327 ... sonnet , 264 sonnetto caudato , see tailed sonnet South African Poetry in English , 313-5 , books 387-8 Southey , Robert ...
... sonnet , 264 Tate , Allen , 141–2 , 229 , 326–7 , illustration 341 , books 389 Taylor , Edward , 26 , 27 , 327 ... sonnet , 264 sonnetto caudato , see tailed sonnet South African Poetry in English , 313-5 , books 387-8 Southey , Robert ...
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List of contributors page | 7 |
List of plates II | 21 |
For further reading | 367 |
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