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... youth whom he was to describe in the mysterious Sonnets . Through Southampton , Shakespeare would almost certainly have met his close friend and political ally , the even more resplendent Earl of Essex , the last of the ageing Queen's ...
... youth whom he was to describe in the mysterious Sonnets . Through Southampton , Shakespeare would almost certainly have met his close friend and political ally , the even more resplendent Earl of Essex , the last of the ageing Queen's ...
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... youth , he became a Grand Old Man of English Literature . By some of his fellow Romantics , once he had renounced the revolutionary principles of his youth , he was regarded as an arch- apostate . In 1818 Shelley dubbed him ' a beastly ...
... youth , he became a Grand Old Man of English Literature . By some of his fellow Romantics , once he had renounced the revolutionary principles of his youth , he was regarded as an arch- apostate . In 1818 Shelley dubbed him ' a beastly ...
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... youth , and , once he had struggled free by dint of herculean efforts , became his closest friend and dearest enemy . When the American poet , James Russell Lowell , met ANTHONY TROLLOPE ( 1815-82 ) , he found the famous novelist ' a ...
... youth , and , once he had struggled free by dint of herculean efforts , became his closest friend and dearest enemy . When the American poet , James Russell Lowell , met ANTHONY TROLLOPE ( 1815-82 ) , he found the famous novelist ' a ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Age of Chaucer | 16 |
The English Renaissance 335 | 35 |
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Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man Ann Cline Kelly No preview available - 2002 |