You have written some other poetry, have you not?' 'Yes, sire.

France, on the contrary, was now reduced from its palmy state of almost European sovereignty to one of the deepest misery; and its monarch, in his old age, found little left of his former power but those records of poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture which tell posterity of his magnificence, and the splendor of which throw his faults and his misfortunes into the shade.

Root's The Poetry of Chaucer.

What difference do you note between the form of Robert Manning of Brunne's Handling Synne and Anglo-Saxon poetry?

Root's The Poetry of Chaucer, 292 pp., is a good reference work in connection with the actual study of the poetry.

Few English prose works have had more influence on the poetry of the Victorian age.

The best poetry of the fifteenth century was written in the Northern dialect, which was spoken north of the river Humber.

" Much of this Scotch poetry is remarkable for showing in that early age a genuine love of nature.

" Outside the pages of Shakespeare, we shall for the next two hundred years look in vain for so genuine a love of scenery and natural phenomena as we find in fifteenth-century Scottish poetry.

Although the higher types of poetry were for the most part wanting during the fifteenth century, yet the ballads multiplied and sang their songs to the ear of life.

English poetry is so great because it has not withdrawn from life, because it was nurtured in such a cradle.

(1509-1547), the influence of Italian poetry made itself distinctly felt.

The roots of Elizabethan poetry were watered by many fountains, one of the chief of which flowed from Italian soil.

To Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) and to the Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) belongs the credit of introducing from Italian sources new influences, which helped to remodel English poetry and give it a distinctly modern cast.

They introduced the poetry of the amorists, that is, verse which tells of the woes and joys of a lover.

In 1557, the year before Elizabeth's accession, the poems of Wyatt and Surrey appeared in Tottel's Miscellany, one of the earliest printed collections of modern English poetry.

The age is noted for its ballads, which aided in developing among high and low a liking for poetry.

Veitch's The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry.

Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

Collins's Greek Influence on English Poetry.

Selections from fifteenth-century Scottish poetry may be found in Bronson, I, 170-197; Ward, I, passim; P. & S., 246-277; Oxford, 16-33.

Shakespeare read Holinshed, North, Greene, Sidney, and Lodge and turned some of their suggestions into poetry, which we very much prefer to their prose.

It was the misfortune of Elizabethan prose to be almost completely overshadowed by the poetry.

For the same reason Goethe's naïve poetry is incomparably greater than Schiller's rhetoric.

The work of art or poetry or philosophy produced by the genius is simply the result, or quintessence, of this contemplative attitude, elaborated according to certain technical rules.