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The Spirit of the English Language

A Practical Guide for Poets, Teachers and Students: How Sound Works in E
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John Wulsin, a language teacher of thirty years, here traces the spirit and evolution of the English language. Taking poetry as his guide, he examines how English has sounded over the past thirteen centuries, and how those changes have affected Western consciousness. This work, destined to be a classic, is filled with the textures of the lives and works of the great English-language poets, from Beowulf and Chaucer to Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Dickinson.
Introduction Part I A Language Is Born Old Anglo-Saxon Evolving Language in Evolving Adolescents The Norman Conquest Chaucer's Middle English The Language Wakes up, Renewed Elizabethan English: Shakespeare Expansion and Contraction: King James Bible Part II Lyric Activity in Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne The English Epic: Milton The Eighteenth Century and Blake Wordsworth Coleridge Byron Shelley Keats Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Tennyson Gerard Manley Hopkins Part III Alteration of the Early American Mind Poetry in American Prose: The Novel Whitman Emily Dickinson Contemporary American Speech Speech and Drama in High School Conclusion
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