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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... language of learning and thought , English at the beginning of the seventeenth century had to compete with Latin , still the uni- versal language . Bacon planned his great unfinished Instauratio Magna in Latin , and Hobbes used Latin ...
... language of learning and thought , English at the beginning of the seventeenth century had to compete with Latin , still the uni- versal language . Bacon planned his great unfinished Instauratio Magna in Latin , and Hobbes used Latin ...
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... language of the ' arguments ' and the evocative language of the poem . An analysis of the differences be- tween the two would elicit many points on Milton's verse style , but particularly the accumulative quality by which , though no ...
... language of the ' arguments ' and the evocative language of the poem . An analysis of the differences be- tween the two would elicit many points on Milton's verse style , but particularly the accumulative quality by which , though no ...
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... language to the illustration of his main themes . If he turned from the Metaphysical style which he attempted in The Passion ( 1630 ) , he did not discard all that could be learnt from the Metaphysicals . That he moulded rather than ...
... language to the illustration of his main themes . If he turned from the Metaphysical style which he attempted in The Passion ( 1630 ) , he did not discard all that could be learnt from the Metaphysicals . That he moulded rather than ...
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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