Viewpoint: An Anthology of PoetryRobin Skelton |
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... notice that there are not many poems of the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries . This is because it wasn't until the nineteenth century that people began to feel really sympathetic towards animals and birds . Before that the poets made ...
... notice that there are not many poems of the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries . This is because it wasn't until the nineteenth century that people began to feel really sympathetic towards animals and birds . Before that the poets made ...
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... , we'll go Together down , sir . Notice Neptune , though , Taming a sea - horse , thought a rarity , Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me ! ROBERT BROWNING ( 1812-1889 ) Mrs Hague Old Mrs Hague , The Gardener's wife , 63.
... , we'll go Together down , sir . Notice Neptune , though , Taming a sea - horse , thought a rarity , Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me ! ROBERT BROWNING ( 1812-1889 ) Mrs Hague Old Mrs Hague , The Gardener's wife , 63.
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... well with the attitude of Siegfried Sassoon . The Troops Notice the contrast between the ' modern ' un- romantic attitude to war and the traditional verse - form , a contrast which ( you could argue ) weakens the impact 148.
... well with the attitude of Siegfried Sassoon . The Troops Notice the contrast between the ' modern ' un- romantic attitude to war and the traditional verse - form , a contrast which ( you could argue ) weakens the impact 148.
Contents
An Elegy on the Death | 112 |
The Host of the Air W B Yeats | 118 |
A Subalterns Love Song John Betjeman | 125 |
Copyright | |
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