English Poetry: A Short History

anthology appeared Ballads beauty became began beginning Ben Jonson better blank verse Browning Byron called charming Chaucer Coleridge collected contemporary Cowper critical death delight died Donne drama Dryden Dunciad early edition eighteenth century Elizabethan England English poetry epic example Faerie Queene familiar famous genius hand hundred imitation influence John John Masefield Johnson Keats King Lady later Laureate lines literary literature lived London long poem look Milton narrative never o'er Paradise Lost parody passages perhaps pieces pleasure poems poetic poets Pope popular printed produced prose published R. C. Trevelyan reader Robert Bridges Rolliad Rossetti satire satirist Scottish Shakespeare Shelley song sonnets Southey Spenser stanza story success Swinburne T. S. Eliot Tennyson thee theme things Thomas Thomas Warton thou thought translation verse Victorian volumes Wilfrid Gibson William Wordsworth writing written wrote young