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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... kind of literature was written in this period ? ' , ' Which authors matter most ? ' , ' Where does the strength of the period lie ? ' . ( iii ) Detailed studies of some of the chief writers and works in the period . Coming after the ...
... kind of literature was written in this period ? ' , ' Which authors matter most ? ' , ' Where does the strength of the period lie ? ' . ( iii ) Detailed studies of some of the chief writers and works in the period . Coming after the ...
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... kind of sermon oratory were Lancelot Andrewes ( 1555-1626 ) and Donne himself , though Donne's style has other qualities . Andrewes is intellectual and analytical , teasing every possible signi- ficance out of the words of his text and ...
... kind of sermon oratory were Lancelot Andrewes ( 1555-1626 ) and Donne himself , though Donne's style has other qualities . Andrewes is intellectual and analytical , teasing every possible signi- ficance out of the words of his text and ...
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... kind of condensed poetic vitality , in packing so much meaning into a short passage that the poetic life survives when the phrase is separated from the total work of art to which in Shakespeare and Pope it is usually subordinated ...
... kind of condensed poetic vitality , in packing so much meaning into a short passage that the poetic life survives when the phrase is separated from the total work of art to which in Shakespeare and Pope it is usually subordinated ...
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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