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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... literature and for the values it embodies should be given as wide a currency as possible , and that literature both today's literature and yesterday's - should have a real and not merely a nominal existence among a comparatively large ...
... literature and for the values it embodies should be given as wide a currency as possible , and that literature both today's literature and yesterday's - should have a real and not merely a nominal existence among a comparatively large ...
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... literature . ( ii ) A 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 ...
... literature . ( ii ) A 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 ...
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... literature and the society in which it is created eludes any easy definition or even description . In different periods , different aspects of the life of society will constitute the rele- vant historical ' background ' of literature ...
... literature and the society in which it is created eludes any easy definition or even description . In different periods , different aspects of the life of society will constitute the rele- vant historical ' background ' of literature ...
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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