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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... literary survey of the period , describing the general characte- ristics of the period's literature in such a way as to enable the reader to trace its growth and to keep his bearings . The aim of this section is to answer such questions ...
... literary survey of the period , describing the general characte- ristics of the period's literature in such a way as to enable the reader to trace its growth and to keep his bearings . The aim of this section is to answer such questions ...
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... literary influences is bound to be a short - sighted process . On the other hand , a bird's - eye view of the late Renaissance in Western Europe , in a prize - giving spirit , might be misleading and unprofitable : England stands out ...
... literary influences is bound to be a short - sighted process . On the other hand , a bird's - eye view of the late Renaissance in Western Europe , in a prize - giving spirit , might be misleading and unprofitable : England stands out ...
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... literary change into a simple succession of movements and ' reactions ' , and to remind us that in periods of heightened vitality developments in different directions often exist side by side.1 By no means all of what we now consider ...
... literary change into a simple succession of movements and ' reactions ' , and to remind us that in periods of heightened vitality developments in different directions often exist side by side.1 By no means all of what we now consider ...
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Andrew Marvell Anglican argument baroque Ben Jonson Browne Bunyan C. H. Herford Cambridge Carew Cavalier Charles Christian Church Civil classical common conceits contemporary Court Cowley Crashaw criticism death divine Donne's dramatic E. M. W. Tillyard effect elegies Elizabethan England Essays experience expression F. R. Leavis feeling Garden gentry Grierson Herbert Grierson History Hobbes Holy human imagery intellectual Jacobean John Donne Jonson kind L. C. Knights language literary London lyric manner Marvell Marvell's medieval Metaphysical Poets Milton mind nature Oxford pamphlets Paradise Lost Parliament passages passion period philosophy Pilgrim's Progress poem poetic poetry political prose Puritan Revolution 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 writing wrote