A Literary History of England

admiration Anglo-Saxon appeared beauty began Ben Jonson Beowulf blank verse Byron cæsura Canterbury Tales career century character charm Chaucer chief Church Coleridge comedy couplet criticism death decasyllabic delight drama dream Dryden early Elizabethan England English English poetry epic essays expression Faerie Queene Falstaff feeling fiction genius give greatest heart heroic couplet honour human humour imagination instance Jane Eyre Johnson Keats King language later lines literary literature living lyrical manner master metre Milton mind narrative nature never novel novelist Paradise Lost passages passion perhaps play poem poet poet's poetic poetry political Pope prose qualities reader Renaissance rhyme romance satire scenes sense Shakespeare Shelley skill sonnets Spenser spirit stanza story style taste Tennyson things thou thought tragedy true Vanity Fair verse Victorian Whig whole wholly words Wordsworth writers written wrote