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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"English poets"”.
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Lowell as a Critic of the Major English Poets
It has often been pointed out, but not so easily illustrated, that a study of the particular often leads to a better understanding of the general. I mean to supply that lack of illustration. In my ease the general refers to that broad field of literary criticism from Socrates to today in which I …
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Esthetics of Dedalus and Bloom: nineteenth century roots, structural metaphors, and resolutions
… from the nineteenth century tradition of English poets, novelists, and essayists which includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Horatio Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats. Stephen Dedalus and his esthetics, particularly as they appear in …
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Metodes Meahta in Six Old English Poems
… of unity was the primary concern of the Old English poets, who aimed to use the power of poetry to teach their people how their hope for immortality might be realized under Christianity. Their concern is evident from their poetic diction and themes that have an origin in common values of …
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The Liturgical Elements in the Poetry of Francis Thompson
… task of making a thorough study of a great many English poets. Nevertheless, the mere fact that such a statement was made would seem to indicate that there were many obvious liturgical images In Thompson’s work.
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Urban rage in Bronzeville: Social commentary in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1945-1960
… and the traditional prosodic devices of the English poets and earned wide acclaim for her poetic expertise. However, by doing so, she also became the literary target of a chorus of dissident voices: a cultural contingency accused her of directing her writing to a white audience and ignoring …
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Making Love in the English Reformation: Carving Images in the Temple of Our Harts
"This project establishes that English poets replayed the Reformation conflict over ""true religion"" on a battlefield of Petrarchan lyric. Conventional, theology-based methodologies insufficiently account for the ongoing appeal of Catholicism and the ubiquity of representations of ritual practice …
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
<p>This study reads some Middle English poetry in terms of crusading, and it argues that the most prominent English poets, namely Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Gower, were against the later crusades regardless of their target. However, since the anti-crusade voice of Gower and …
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The philosopher, the preacher, and the poet : sadness and suffering in late medieval English literature
… techniques were subsequently employed by Middle English poets for similar purposes. In the final part I concentrate on the discourse of poet and Privy Seal employee Thomas Hoccleve; my purpose in this section is to demonstate that an awareness of late medieval intellectual contexts can …
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Shakespearean fama
… understanding of this protean body persisted in English poets who were well-versed in classical literature, and fama has shown itself in Shakespeare by changing further. Throughout the four chapters of this study, looking respectively at the Sonnets (chapters 1 and 2), Much Ado About Nothing, and …
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Shakespeare studies in Colonial Bengal : The early phase.
… focussed on the work of three early teachers of English at Hindu College -Henry Derozio, D.L. Richardson, and H.M. Percival - who laid the foundation of Shakespeare studies in colonial Bengal. Derozio's inspiring teaching made his students not only crusaders against orthodoxy but also fighters …
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A study of compound hapax legomena in Old English poetry
… use of a particular type of compound word in Old English poetry, the compound which is uniquely attested. Compounds, which in Old English poetry are chiefly substantival and adjectival, are especially important in context because they consist of two words that in the normal vocabulary already had …
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Pledges and Agreements in Old English - A Semantic Field Study
This dissertation investigates the Old English word field for the concepts of ‘pledges’ and agreements by analysing the words belonging to the field in their contextual environments. The particular focus is on the word wedd (‘pledge’), which is shown to have different connotations in different text …
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Swinburne's poetics: theory and practice
The thesis attempts to construct Swinburne's poetics through an explication of two poems, "Thalassius" and "On the Cliffs," published in Songs of the Springtides in 1880, and to show the relation abetween his critical principles as extracted from his prose writings and the theory of poetry and …
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Burns again
… growth of her greatest poet. 1. Lectures on the English Poets, p. 127. 2. Letters, V. i, p. 183. 3. Life and Work of Robert Burns, Chambers-Wallace, V. iv, p. 521.