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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... feeling for a living literature and for the values it embodies should be given as wide a currency as possible , and that literature both today's literature and yesterday's - should have a real and not merely a nominal existence among a ...
... feeling for a living literature and for the values it embodies should be given as wide a currency as possible , and that literature both today's literature and yesterday's - should have a real and not merely a nominal existence among a ...
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... feeling as A Valediction : of weeping may be shown to carry overtones of a number of other possible responses to the situation , even if these are not perhaps so many or so complex as Mr Empson's analysis in Seven Types of Ambiguity ...
... feeling as A Valediction : of weeping may be shown to carry overtones of a number of other possible responses to the situation , even if these are not perhaps so many or so complex as Mr Empson's analysis in Seven Types of Ambiguity ...
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... feeling for the past , and in addition there was the energy and excitement of experimentation in a comparatively new medium . In reading Hooker's great perorations on Order and the Light of Reason , too , one has the sense of absorption ...
... feeling for the past , and in addition there was the energy and excitement of experimentation in a comparatively new medium . In reading Hooker's great perorations on Order and the Light of Reason , too , one has the sense of absorption ...
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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