Qualification of statement ( lines 3-10) This doesn't mean that England has produced the greatest poets or amount of poetry.

Clarification ( lines 11-14) English is the richest language for poetry because it has the largest vocabulary.

Supporting statement + exmples ( lines 14-29). This richness is due to the variety of elements of which English is made of:
a) Germanic foundation
b) Scandinavian elements
c) French elements ( norman and others)
d) Words coined from latin
e) Testing of new Latin words
f) Presence of Celtic

Further clarification +examples ( lines 29-40). The English language is also rich in its rhythmic variety. The elements are:
a) Early Saxon verse.
b) Norman French rythm.
c) Welsh rythm.
d) Latin and Greek rythm.
e) Differences between poems written in English but from different area.

First restatement ( lines 41-44). English is a good language for poetry because it is derived from so many linguistic sources.

Second restatement (lines 44-48). England has not necessarily produced the greatest poets.

Statement + examples (lines 49-51). It is generally thought that the greatest peoples excel in one art. Examples:
a) France and Italy in painting.
b) Germany in music.
c) England in poetry.

Refutation + examples (lines 52-68). This is not correct because:
a) No art is an exclusive possession of a singular country.
b) There were periods in which other countries has got the preminence.
Example: Romantic movement in English poetry followed by France contribution.

Further refutation + example (lines 68-76). A nation which leads in a particular art form in a particular period does not necessarily produce the greatest artists. Example: in the first Romantic movement England dominated but Goethe, a German, was wonderful and he can't be compared to Wordsworth.

Statement (lines 77-86). No European nation would have accomplished what it has , as far as culture is concerned , if other countries had not developed the same art forms.

Statement ( lines 86-99). The ability of European literature to renew itself depends on two factors:
a) Ability to receive and assimilate influences from abroad.
b) To go back and learn from its own sources.

Part III

a) The personal pronoun I always refers to the author: he insets his opinions and his considerations.
b) The personal pronoun "you" doesn't always refer to the same people. In line 18 the essayist underlines that the reader is a German reader or everyone whose language isn't English but with a Germanic fundation.
In line 41 the author uses this personal pronoun in order to all his readers' or listeners' attention, whatever their nationality is.

IV) The verbs used in the text to express opinion are: to think, to venture, to wish make something.

Part V

A) The essayist is addressing English public.
B) In the essay opinions belong to an English poet, T. S. Eliot.
C) The writer wants to persuase his public that English language is the better language to write poetry, but he doesn't want to say that English poetry is the best one.
D) In order to support his first statement (the English as the richest language to write in poetry) the essayist proposes linguistic argumentations: the contribution of many languages to English one and the sound and the rythm of every language. Then he states that's a generally thought that greatest people excel only in one arte but he denies this point of view supportino that no one can posses an art and that preeeminence in a particular period of greatness of art not necessarily is linked with the birth of the most important artists.
The third statement is that poetry in every nation can improve only if it improves also in the other nations.
The last statement of the essay says that the renewing of European literature is based on an intellectual opening to the news from the other nations and on a returning to his own origins to discover something new.