Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer
Baldwin
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The sun came dazzling through the leaves, And flamed upon the brazen greaves Of bold Sir Lancelot.
"The curse is come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott.
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- Part II.Sample
- Part III.
- NOTES.
- NOTES.
- THE LOTOS-EATERS.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- NOTE.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- NOTES.
- THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS.
- NOTES.
- THE SOLITARY REAPER.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- Part I.
- NOTES
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- TO A SKYLARK
- NOTES.
- HYMN OF PAN.
- NOTES.
- FROM "EPIPSYCHIDION."
- NOTES.
- A LAMENT.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- I
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- NOTES.
- FROM "THE EVE OF ST. AGNES."
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- The Eighteenth Century.
- Poets of the Eighteenth Century.
- Inscribed To R. Aiken, Esq.2
- NOTES.
- FOR A' THAT, AND A' THAT.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- BOADICEA.
- NOTES.
- ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE.
- NOTES.
- EPITAPH ON A HARE.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- THREE PICTURES FROM "THE DESERTED VILLAGE."
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- I. 1.
- I. 2.
- I. 3.
- II. 1.
- II. 2.
- II. 3.
- III. 1.
- III. 2.
- III. 3.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- FROM THE "ESSAY ON CRITICISM."
- NOTES.
- MDCCVIII. I.
- III.
- IV.
- VI.
- VII.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- The Seventeenth Century.
- Poets of the Seventeenth Century.
- An Ode in Honor of St. Cecilia's Day.
- NOTES.
- [FROM "ANNUS MIRABILIS."]
- NOTES.
- [FROM "RELIGIO LAICI."]
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- THE HYMN. I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV.
- XXV.
- XXVI.
- XXVII.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- WORDSWORTH'S SONNET TO MILTON.
- A THANKSGIVING TO GOD.
- SONG.
- OF ENGLISH VERSE.
- ON A GIRDLE.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- AN ODE TO HIMSELF.
- NOTES.
- TO CYNTHIA.
- TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- The Sixteenth Century.
- Poets of the Sixteenth Century.
- [FROM "VENUS AND ADONIS."]
- [FROM "CYMBELINE."]
- [FROM "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING."]
- [SONNET XXXIII.]
- [SONNET LXVI.]
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- THE CAVE OF MAMMON.
- NOTES.
- PROTHALAMION; or, A SPOUSALL VERSE.
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- THE COURTIER'S LIFE.
- FROM THE FOURTH BOOK OF VIRGIL'S "ÆNEID."
- Description and Praise of his Love Geraldine.
- ON THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS WYATT.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
- WALY, WALY.
- NOTES.
- A Scottish Ballad.
- THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON.
- ROBIN HOOD AND THE WIDOW'S THREE SONS.
- NOTES.
- The Fifteenth Century.
- Poets of the Fifteenth Century.
- TO MAYSTRESS MARGARET HUSSEY.
- [FROM "WHY COME YE NOT TO COURT?"]
- NOTES.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- A VISIT TO LONDON.
- NOTE.
- NOTE.
- FOUR POETS OF THIS CENTURY.
- The Fourteenth Century.
- FROM THE "PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES."
- NOTES.
- ON READING CHAUCER.
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- INDEX TO NOTES.