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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... universe , of the laws govern- ing political and economic activity , of the spiritual and physical nature of man , which had their origins far back in the Middle Ages . In recent years scholars have been busy reconstructing for us what ...
... universe , of the laws govern- ing political and economic activity , of the spiritual and physical nature of man , which had their origins far back in the Middle Ages . In recent years scholars have been busy reconstructing for us what ...
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... universe where every- thing is upside down . Reality is thus viewed in distorted and grinning mirrors . For the Renaissance the solid wholeness was implicitly given by the comple- mentary union of the Macrocosmos , the totality of ...
... universe where every- thing is upside down . Reality is thus viewed in distorted and grinning mirrors . For the Renaissance the solid wholeness was implicitly given by the comple- mentary union of the Macrocosmos , the totality of ...
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... universe by a world of corres- pondences . A network of recurrent motifs is constantly being inter- posed between reality and ourselves : tears , wounds , flaming hearts , the turtle - dove , and the phoenix , the grave and the nest in ...
... universe by a world of corres- pondences . A network of recurrent motifs is constantly being inter- posed between reality and ourselves : tears , wounds , flaming hearts , the turtle - dove , and the phoenix , the grave and the nest in ...
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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