London in Poetry and ProseAnna Adams Enitharmon, 2003 - 205 頁 This anthology is a celebration of the city of London: Noisy, stimulating, deadening, filthy, mysterious, tolerant, racist, crime-ridden, saint-haunted, ancient, up-to-the-minute, oppressive, liberating, crowded, lonely, addictive, and green-and-gardened, London is a microcosm of the World. These words, from Anna Adams Foreword, give a taste of the breadth of subject-matter and tone to be enjoyed in this magnificent illustrated anthology. Writing from the Middle Ages to the present is divided into themes including The Weather in the Streets, The Poor and the Rich, The Countryman in Town, The Recent Wars and unavoidably London Transport ." |
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第 1 到 3 筆結果,共 9 筆
第 28 頁
... wonder of God ! He says : ' Return , Albion , return ! I give myself for thee : My Streets are my Ideas of Imagination . Awake , Albion , awake ! and let us awake up together . My Houses are Thoughts ; my Inhabitants Affections , The ...
... wonder of God ! He says : ' Return , Albion , return ! I give myself for thee : My Streets are my Ideas of Imagination . Awake , Albion , awake ! and let us awake up together . My Houses are Thoughts ; my Inhabitants Affections , The ...
第 124 頁
... wonder by saying we were yet several miles from it on the night that we got into London it was announced in the play Bills that a song of mine was to be sung at Covent Garden by Madame Vestris & we was to have gone but it was too late I ...
... wonder by saying we were yet several miles from it on the night that we got into London it was announced in the play Bills that a song of mine was to be sung at Covent Garden by Madame Vestris & we was to have gone but it was too late I ...
第 166 頁
... Still I found pacing there the twain Just as slowly , just as sadly , Heedless of the night and rain . One could but wonder who they were And what wild woe detained them there . IV Though thirty years of blur and blot Have slid 166.
... Still I found pacing there the twain Just as slowly , just as sadly , Heedless of the night and rain . One could but wonder who they were And what wild woe detained them there . IV Though thirty years of blur and blot Have slid 166.
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