Five Centuries Of English Verse: Wordsworth To Tennyson

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Volume 1: Chaucer to Burns, 412 numbered pages, including index of "Poets" and index of "First Words". The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Volume II: Wordsworth to Tennyson, 410 numbered pages, including index of "Poets" and index of "First Words", (Both Complete in One Volume). Admiration is not to be sought for Chaucer by way of alms, with a kind of compassionate indulgence for him as phenomenal for his period.Chaucer, as he tells us everywhere, drank deep of the open fountains, and gloried in his draughts from them. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.

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