 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English literature - 1876 - 180 pages
...historical poems are his work — the Civil Wars of Edward If. and the Barons, and England's Hero'.cal Epistles, 1598. Not content with these, he set himself...real reason was that this kind of poetry had had its day. It appeared in 1613, in James I.'s reign. 73. Philosophical Poets. — Before that time a change... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English literature - 1878 - 180 pages
...pure fancy wrote in verse a prosaic History of the Civil Wars, 1595, as we have already found Tiim writing history in prose. Spenser saw in him a new...real reason was that this kind of poetry had had its day. It appeared in 1613, in James I.'s reign. 73. Philosophical Poets. — Before that time a change... | |
 | John Richard Green - History - 1878 - 522 pages
...in verse the record of her past.; Drayton in his "Polyolbion" sang the fairness of the land itself, the " tracts, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Britain." The national pride took its highest poetic form in the historical drama. No plays seem to have been... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English language - 1879 - 188 pages
...popularity was great, and the English in which it was written deserved it. Such stories as Argentlle and Curan, and the Patient Countess, prove him to...real reason was that this kind of poetry had had its day. It appeared in 1613, in James I.'s reign. 73. Philosophical Poets. — Before that time a change... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...was great, and the English in which it was written deserved it. Such stories as Aryentile and Cur an and the Patient Countess prove him to have had a true...real reason was, that this kind of poetry had had its day. It appeared in 1613, in James I. 's reign. PHILOSOPHICAL POETRY.— Before that time a change... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 pages
...DRAYTON. Two historical poems are his work — the Civil Wars of Edward II. and the Barons, and Enyland's Heroical Epistles, 1598. Not content with these, he...real reason was, that this kind of poetry had had its day. -It appeared in 1613, in James I. 's reign. PHILOSOPHICAL POETRY. — Before that time a change... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1883 - 492 pages
...historical poems are his work — the Civil Wars of Edward II. and the Barons, and England^s Ileroical Epistles, 1598. Not content with these, he set himself...the most remarkable stories, antiquities, wonders, Poetry — Pliilosophical and Translations. 119 pleasures, and commodities of the same, digested into... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1884 - 486 pages
...Epistles, 1598. Not content with these, he set himself to glorify the whole of his land in the Polyolliion, thirty books, and more than 30,000 lines. It is a...pleasures, and commodities of the same, digested into apoeni.' It was not a success, though it deserved success. Its great length was against it, but the... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - Literature - 1891 - 348 pages
...than 30,000 lines of description of " the tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of the renowned isle of Britain, with intermixture of the most remarkable stories, antiquities, etc." Poly-Olbion is the " best topographical poem the English language has produced ;" but the author... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English literature - 1894 - 264 pages
...himself to glorify the whole of his land in the Polyolbion, thirty books, and nearly 100,000 lines. It 1s a description in Alexandrines of the "tracts, mountains,...real reason was that this kind of poetry had had its day. It appeared in 1613, in James I.'s reign. 67. Philosophical Poets. — Before that time a change... | |
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Heroical Epistles, 1598. Not content with these, he set himself to glorify the whole of his land in the Polyolbion, thirty books, and more than 30,000 lines. It is a description in Alexandrines of the "tracts, mountains, forests, and other parts of this... 
