The English Muse, a Sketch

alliterative alliterative verse ballad beauty Beowulf blank verse Cædmon century Chaucer classical colour comedy couplet Cynewulf death delight Donne drama dream Dryden earth elegy epic Faerie Queene fancy feeling flowers gift Greek happy Harrowing of Hell hath heaven Henry heroic heroic couplet honour humour John Keats kind king lady language Latin Layamon legend less light lines live lover lyric Marlowe mediæval melody metre Milton mind mood moral muse natural never night noble odes Old English passages passion picture Piers the Ploughman play poem poet poetic poetry Pope praise prose prosody pure queen rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare Shelley shows song sonnets soul speaks speech Spenser spirit stanza story style sweet syllables tale tells thee things Thomas thou tragedy translation Troilus Troilus and Criseyde true vision Widsith William words Wordsworth writing written youth