A Critical History of English Poetry

alliteration appeared ballad beauty Blake Book Browning Byron called century character Christian close Coleridge comes critics death delight described drama dream early earth effect Elizabethan England English experience expression eyes feeling followed French give hand heart hope human imagination influence inspired interest Italy Keats kind King language later less light lines live lost manner Milton mind moral moving Nature never night odes once original pass passion perhaps plays poems poet poetic poetry political prose religious romance romantic satire scene Scott Scottish seems sense Shakespeare Shelley songs sonnets soul spirit stanza story style tells Tennyson theme things thou thought tion touches tragedy true truth turned verse whole Wordsworth write written wrote young