A Guide to English Literature: From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Cassell, 1961 A Russian couple wanted a child so much that they made one out of snow. |
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... Death . A second Dance of Death passed over Europe . A taste for the macabre permeated French drama of the period as well as the Jacobean drama . The skeleton became a decorative element of Italian mortuary monuments and the grim ...
... Death . A second Dance of Death passed over Europe . A taste for the macabre permeated French drama of the period as well as the Jacobean drama . The skeleton became a decorative element of Italian mortuary monuments and the grim ...
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... death which are to follow . The second stanza depends on the reader's knowledge of the meaning , in alchemy , of ' quintessence ' - the fifth , and therefore extremely pure , distilla- tion : Love has ' pressed out ' A quintessence even ...
... death which are to follow . The second stanza depends on the reader's knowledge of the meaning , in alchemy , of ' quintessence ' - the fifth , and therefore extremely pure , distilla- tion : Love has ' pressed out ' A quintessence even ...
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... death , 1652 ; Latin Secretaryship to Common- wealth Government , 1649 ; became completely blind , 1652 ; married Katherine Woodcock , 1656 , and deplored her death in sonnet , 1658 ; began Paradise Lost probably c . 1658 ; prosecuted ...
... death , 1652 ; Latin Secretaryship to Common- wealth Government , 1649 ; became completely blind , 1652 ; married Katherine Woodcock , 1656 , and deplored her death in sonnet , 1658 ; began Paradise Lost probably c . 1658 ; prosecuted ...
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Andrew Marvell Anglican argument baroque Ben Jonson Browne Bunyan C. H. Herford Cambridge Carew Cavalier characteristic Charles Christian Church Civil classical common conceits contemporary Court Cowley Crashaw criticism death divine Donne's dramatic effect elegies Elizabethan emotional England English Literature Essays experience expression F. R. Leavis feeling Garden gentry Grierson Herbert Grierson History Hobbes human imagery intellectual Jacobean John Donne Jonson kind L. C. Knights language Leviathan literary London lyric manner Marvell Marvell's medieval Metaphysical Poets Milton mind moral nature Oxford pamphlets Paradise Lost passages passion period philosophy Pilgrim's Progress poem poetic poetry political prose reader Religio Medici religion religious Renaissance Restoration Royal Royalist satire sense Sermons Seventeenth Century Shakespeare Sir Herbert Sir Thomas social society songs soul spirit stanza style Suckling suggests T. S. Eliot theme theology thou thought tion tone tradition universe Vaughan verse vols Waller whole words writing wrote