A Critical History of English Poetry

A. C. Swinburne A. H. Bullen allegory ballad beauty Blake blank verse Burns Byron called century character charm Chaucer Christian Coleridge comedy Cowper Crabbe death delight diction didactic Donne drama dream Dryden E. K. Chambers early Elizabethan England English poetry epic eyes Faerie Queene feeling French Greek heart Heaven human hymns imagination inspired interest John Johnson Keats King Lady language later lines live lover Lycidas metre Milton mind mood moral Nature never night odes Oxfd Paradise Paradise Lost passion pastoral Petrarch plays poems poet poet's poetic political Pope Pope's prose Queen religious rhyme romance satire scene Scots Scott Scottish sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's songs sonnets soul Spenser spirit stanza story style Swinburne tells Tennyson thee theme things Thomas thou thought tion tradition tragedy translation truth vols words Wordsworth write written wrote