Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poetse-artnow, 07 մյս, 2021 թ. - 927 էջ "Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by William Howitt, first published in 1847, that features the biographical accounts of the most distinguished literary figures among the British. Contents: Geoffrey Chaucer Edmund Spenser Shakespeare Abraham Cowley John Milton Samuel Butler John Dryden Joseph Addison John Gay Alexander Pope Dean Swift James Thomson William Shenstone Chatterton Thomas Gray Oliver Goldsmith Robert Burns William Cowper Mrs. Tighe John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron George Crabbe James Hogg Samuel Taylor Coleridge Felicia Hemans L. E. L. Sir Walter Scott Thomas Campbell Robert Southey Joanna Baillie William Wordsworth James Montgomery Walter Savage Landor Leigh Hunt Samuel Rogers Thomas Moore Ebenezer Elliott John Wilson Waller Bryan Procter Alfred Tennyson Concluding Remarks |
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... town of Doneraile. It is a very inconsiderable stream, forcing itself with difficulty among the rocks with which its channel is encumbered; and, like many mountain rivulets, is dry during the summer heats. When we saw it, in the course ...
... town of Doneraile. It is a very inconsiderable stream, forcing itself with difficulty among the rocks with which its channel is encumbered; and, like many mountain rivulets, is dry during the summer heats. When we saw it, in the course ...
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... town lands of Ardenbone and Knocknacaple given to him by Spenser as his sister's marriage dowry. The descendants of this sister number among many distinguished families of Ireland, those of the Earls of Cork and Ossary, Earl Shannon ...
... town lands of Ardenbone and Knocknacaple given to him by Spenser as his sister's marriage dowry. The descendants of this sister number among many distinguished families of Ireland, those of the Earls of Cork and Ossary, Earl Shannon ...
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... town, has been scouted, especially as he was then a full-grown man of twenty-three. The thing, however, is by no means improbable. Shakspeare was most likely as independent as he was clever and active. On arriving in town, and seeing an ...
... town, has been scouted, especially as he was then a full-grown man of twenty-three. The thing, however, is by no means improbable. Shakspeare was most likely as independent as he was clever and active. On arriving in town, and seeing an ...
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... towns, forests, and mountains, of this and other countries, wherever civilized man has played his part, will the genius of Shakspeare cast an ... town has permitted the spirit of veneration to alight there, and cast its protecting wings over.
... towns, forests, and mountains, of this and other countries, wherever civilized man has played his part, will the genius of Shakspeare cast an ... town has permitted the spirit of veneration to alight there, and cast its protecting wings over.
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... town is full of the 'signs' of his glory; and where Garrick made that pompous jubilee, hailing Shakspeare as a demi-god, and calling him 'the god of our idolatry;' and where thousands, and even millions, flock to do homage to the shrine ...
... town is full of the 'signs' of his glory; and where Garrick made that pompous jubilee, hailing Shakspeare as a demi-god, and calling him 'the god of our idolatry;' and where thousands, and even millions, flock to do homage to the shrine ...
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SAMUEL BUTLER | |
JOHN DRYDEN | |
JAMES THOMSON | |
WILLIAM SHENSTONE | |
CHATTERTON | |
GRAY AT STOKEPOGIS | |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | |
ROBERT BURNS | |
WILLIAM COWPER | |
MRS TIGHE THE AUTHOR OF PSYCHE | |
JOSEPH ADDISON | |
JOHN | |
ALEXANDER POPE | |
DEAN SWIFT | |
STELLAS HOUSE | |
JOHN KEATS | |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY | |
LORD BYRON | |
Table of Contents | |
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