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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... things with dazzling brilliance or whether they wanted to convey a particular experience of the world . Some of Gongora's most com- mon adjectives - confuso , incierto , inconstante , inquieto disquieting , as if imagination was ...
... things with dazzling brilliance or whether they wanted to convey a particular experience of the world . Some of Gongora's most com- mon adjectives - confuso , incierto , inconstante , inquieto disquieting , as if imagination was ...
Page 213
... things as pregnancy and bodily disease , we realize that Bunyan wrote as a man rather than as a gentleman and that his sensibility was of a practical nature . Abstractions seem to have come to his mind first in concrete or personal form ...
... things as pregnancy and bodily disease , we realize that Bunyan wrote as a man rather than as a gentleman and that his sensibility was of a practical nature . Abstractions seem to have come to his mind first in concrete or personal form ...
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... things to obtrude And force some odd Similitude . These imply standards of correctness and decorum , literary and social- certain things are ' not done ' in poetry - and when Dryden quotes the second passage in the Preface to An ...
... things to obtrude And force some odd Similitude . These imply standards of correctness and decorum , literary and social- certain things are ' not done ' in poetry - and when Dryden quotes the second passage in the Preface to An ...
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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