From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors

Æneid Alfred Tennyson ballads Beaumont Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson blank verse Bleak House Byron Canterbury Tales Carlyle century character Chaucer Chronicle church classical Coleridge comedy court Cowper death Dickens diction drama dramatists Dryden edition Elizabethan England English poetry English poets essays euphuism eyes Faerie Queene fashion Fletcher French genius George George Eliot Greek GROSSET & DUNLAP hath heart Henry hero heroic Homer humor John Johnson Julius Cæsar King Lady language Latin literary literature lived London Lord lyrical manner Milton modern nature never night novel Paradise Lost passages passion plays poem poet poetic poetry Pope popular printed prose published Puritan reader reign romance satire Scott Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley song sonnets Spenser spirit story Struldbrugs style sweet Tale taste Tennyson Thackeray thee things Thomas thou thought tion tragedy translation words Wordsworth writings written wrote young