Five Poems, 1470-1870: An Elementary Essay on the Background of English Literature

albatross Ancient Mariner angels animals Anne Killigrew Antinous beauty belief blessed the water-snakes Chaucer classic code of Love Coleridge commonplaces contemporary contrast correspond courtly courtly love creation Criseyde Cupid dance Davies Davies's decorum doctrine doth Dryden Dryden's Ode earth Elizabethan English feeling five poems give God's gods Grinling Gibbons Guenever heaven heavenly Henryson Hertha human ideas implies individual less liberty literary live lover matters means medieval medieval allegory Middle Ages mind moon moral nature nineteenth century notion Ode on Anne Orchestra pagan pantheism passage Penelope planets Platonic love poem's poetic poets qualities reader religion religious repentance Romantic Saturn sense sensual Songs before Sunrise soul speak spirit stanza stars Swinburne Swinburne's Testament of Cresseid Teutonic thee theme things thou thought thrasonical tion tragedy Troilus Troilus and Criseyde Truth verse virtue whole words world picture writing Yggdrasil