Bibliograph

The history of English poetry, Peter Whitfield

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The history of English poetry, Peter Whitfield

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eng

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Main title

The history of English poetry

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sound recording

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320195336

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Peter Whitfield

Summary

Great poetry can indeed outlast stone and the glory of princes, and the English poetic tradition is perhaps the richest in the world. This audiobook tells the story of that tradition through its towering figures, Spenser and Shakespeare, Milton and Dryden, Wordsworth and Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson and Eliot, and through scores of other poets

Table Of Contents

Foundations -- The Elizabethan achievement -- The 17th century : from Donne to Milton -- The 18th century : from Dryden to Blake -- The romantic poets -- The poetry of the Victorian age -- American poetry -- Modernism -- Conclusion

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