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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... imagery , for example , was subordinated to a purely intellectual purpose ; he deployed his various figures of speech , as we can see in The Advance- ment of Learning , not in order to express the whole range of his feelings about the ...
... imagery , for example , was subordinated to a purely intellectual purpose ; he deployed his various figures of speech , as we can see in The Advance- ment of Learning , not in order to express the whole range of his feelings about the ...
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... imagery of a sea - battle . Pleasure continues the contest with the temptations of sex , wealth , glory , and knowledge , and the Soul replies to the Mephistophelian baits with Socratic scepticism . The situation is dramatic , almost ...
... imagery of a sea - battle . Pleasure continues the contest with the temptations of sex , wealth , glory , and knowledge , and the Soul replies to the Mephistophelian baits with Socratic scepticism . The situation is dramatic , almost ...
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... Imagery ( London , 1939 ) Sharp , R. L. From Donne to Dryden : The Revolt against Metaphysical Poetry ( Chapel Hill , 1940 ) Smith , J. ' Metaphysical Poetry ' in Determinations ed . F. R. Leavis ( London , 1934 ) Summerson , J ...
... Imagery ( London , 1939 ) Sharp , R. L. From Donne to Dryden : The Revolt against Metaphysical Poetry ( Chapel Hill , 1940 ) Smith , J. ' Metaphysical Poetry ' in Determinations ed . F. R. Leavis ( London , 1934 ) Summerson , J ...
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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