The Poets and Their Critics: Chaucer to Collins, by H. S. Davies

admiration allegory appear artificial beauty Ben Jonson better blank verse Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer classic Unity classical Collins Comus couplet Cowley criticism delight diction Donne Donne's Dryden Dunciad effect Elegy English poetry English Poets epic Essay excellence expression Faerie Queene fancy faults feeling genius give Gray Gray's harmony hath Homer human ideas imagery images imagination imitated intellectual John Donne John Milton Johnson judgment kind language learning lines Lycidas lyric manner masters meaning metaphysical metaphysical poets Milton mind moral nature never numbers observation Paradise Lost passage passion peculiar perfect perhaps pleasure poem poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise prose qualities reader rhyme satire seems sense sentiment Shakespeare sound Spenser spirit stanza style sublime T. S. Eliot taste things thought tion translation truth versification Virgil virtue whole words Wordsworth writing wrote