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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... less , the large number of learned , cultivated , and intellectually adventurous men who emerged from this environment cannot be ignored . " - The chief occupation and study of the universities , however , was theology . Some ...
... less , the large number of learned , cultivated , and intellectually adventurous men who emerged from this environment cannot be ignored . " - The chief occupation and study of the universities , however , was theology . Some ...
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... less simple and less dramatic , in a sense more ' personal ' because less traditional . He gives the impression of going farther , perhaps because he shows us fewer landmarks . And it may be felt that parable - form is not altogether ...
... less simple and less dramatic , in a sense more ' personal ' because less traditional . He gives the impression of going farther , perhaps because he shows us fewer landmarks . And it may be felt that parable - form is not altogether ...
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... less directly practical and down - to - earth - but it is much less pervasive than in The Temple . Vaughan has not the same compulsion to be understood . Here , as elsewhere , we find him , in comparison with Herbert , moving towards ...
... less directly practical and down - to - earth - but it is much less pervasive than in The Temple . Vaughan has not the same compulsion to be understood . Here , as elsewhere , we find him , in comparison with Herbert , moving towards ...
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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