An Anthology of Elizabethan and Puritan Poetry. William Webbe, in .

A few weeks ago, I made the mistake of going to see Measure for Measure. The truth is that Shakespeare is losing his appeal in his own country. But there are signs that cracks are appearing in this Shakespearean a.

Donne openly despises the ritual and indirection of Platonic love, he will follow nature and pluck his rose. My love is of a birth as rare. It was begotten by Despair.

An Anthology of the Restoration, Augustan and Age of Sensibility. From harmony, from Heavenly harmony. When Nature underneath a heap. Of jarring atoms lay,. And could not heave her head,. The tuneful voice was heard from high,. Arise ye more than dead! Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry,. In order to their stations leap,. From harmony, from Heavenly harmony.

I met a traveller from an antique land,. Near them, on the sand,. Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,. And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,.

In a sentence prepositions show the relation of one word to another word. Prepositions require an object to complete them, typically a noun or a pronoun. A preposition and its object is called a prepositional phrase. Prepositional phrases can modify nouns, verbs, phrases, and complete clauses. Melanie eats breakfast every day in the garden.

The grey sea and the long black land;. And the yellow half-moon large and low;. And the startled little waves that leap. In fiery ringlets from their sleep,. As I gain the cove with pushing prow,. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;. Three fields to cross till a farm appears;. A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch. And blue spurt of a lighted match,.

An Anthology of English Language and Literature. Ezra Pound Poetic and Literary View.