English Verse: Chaucer to Burns (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from English Verse: Chaucer to Burns

Genius took a broader flight in the second book, which opens with the complaint of the fallen angels in hell and the lamentation of the souls detained in Limbo, and then depicts the descent of Christ for the liberation of those souls, concluding with a description of the terrors of the Day of Judgment. Such was the first English poet, and such was his poem, which was writ ten in short lines, without rhyme, the rhythm depend ing upon accent.

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