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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... poet sees one thing at a time , in its momentary , changing aspect , and the change is an abrupt one . ' This juxtaposition of images or moments which fail to fuse ... poetic universe retains a hard , glittering solidity even 86 PART THREE.
... poet sees one thing at a time , in its momentary , changing aspect , and the change is an abrupt one . ' This juxtaposition of images or moments which fail to fuse ... poetic universe retains a hard , glittering solidity even 86 PART THREE.
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... poetic work , is a major achievement in poetic structure . The events are thus means to an end , not the main interest ; simi- larly , the various shifts of attention ( from the exordium to Hell , to Heaven , to Eden ) are not the ...
... poetic work , is a major achievement in poetic structure . The events are thus means to an end , not the main interest ; simi- larly , the various shifts of attention ( from the exordium to Hell , to Heaven , to Eden ) are not the ...
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... poet than Marvell , but in MrEliot's opinion ' he lacked what his master Jonson possessed , a large and unique view of life : he lacked insight , he lacked profundity ' . Marvell was more immediately and intimately the poetic heir of ...
... poet than Marvell , but in MrEliot's opinion ' he lacked what his master Jonson possessed , a large and unique view of life : he lacked insight , he lacked profundity ' . Marvell was more immediately and intimately the poetic heir of ...
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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