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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... meaning , because it was exactly here in expressing the whole texture of an idea or a situa- tion that the writer's chief interest lay , and not so much in the desire to analyse , argue , and prove . -- - - There had , in fact , been ...
... meaning , because it was exactly here in expressing the whole texture of an idea or a situa- tion that the writer's chief interest lay , and not so much in the desire to analyse , argue , and prove . -- - - There had , in fact , been ...
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... 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 . Shake- speare , however , has also a number of phrases ( e ...
... 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 . Shake- speare , however , has also a number of phrases ( e ...
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... meanings , and on the subtle use of rhythm . The word ' ballance ' suggests rhythmically its meaning . One can feel the swords crossing and sliding against each other , and the balance of the sword in the hand . With its further ...
... meanings , and on the subtle use of rhythm . The word ' ballance ' suggests rhythmically its meaning . One can feel the swords crossing and sliding against each other , and the balance of the sword in the hand . With its further ...
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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