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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... gives us deep thoughts in common language ... the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse words ' . It is significant that Cleveland is at his best in political satire , a mode congenial to the next age . Cowley , like Cleveland ...
... gives us deep thoughts in common language ... the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse words ' . It is significant that Cleveland is at his best in political satire , a mode congenial to the next age . Cowley , like Cleveland ...
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... gives some suggestions of the literary excellence we are to look for in the poem , particularly the power to keep central themes steadily , if loosely , in control of a multiplicity of details , the power to achieve a great sweep of ...
... gives some suggestions of the literary excellence we are to look for in the poem , particularly the power to keep central themes steadily , if loosely , in control of a multiplicity of details , the power to achieve a great sweep of ...
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... gives an extremely interesting and valuable survey of his work and personality - one must allow , of course , for the obituary eulogy . 5. For his position in the history of the ode , see Robert Shafer , The English Ode to 1660 . 6. For ...
... gives an extremely interesting and valuable survey of his work and personality - one must allow , of course , for the obituary eulogy . 5. For his position in the history of the ode , see Robert Shafer , The English Ode to 1660 . 6. For ...
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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