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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... verse has a warmer quality and a fondness for paradoxical wit that connect him with such Catholic poets as the Elizabethan Southwell and the Caroline Crashaw . The Fletchers form an important link between Spenser and Milton . Much ...
... verse has a warmer quality and a fondness for paradoxical wit that connect him with such Catholic poets as the Elizabethan Southwell and the Caroline Crashaw . The Fletchers form an important link between Spenser and Milton . Much ...
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... verse will not ' work ' properly . Even the least experienced reader can easily see the marked differ- ence between the jerky , flat language of the ' arguments ' and the evocative language of the poem . An analysis of the differences ...
... verse will not ' work ' properly . Even the least experienced reader can easily see the marked differ- ence between the jerky , flat language of the ' arguments ' and the evocative language of the poem . An analysis of the differences ...
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... verse has met . Milton's verse moves with relatively little variety of speed or em- phasis . The main point of interest , instead of being precisely localized or standing in sharp relief from the rest , is often lost in the successive ...
... verse has met . Milton's verse moves with relatively little variety of speed or em- phasis . The main point of interest , instead of being precisely localized or standing in sharp relief from the rest , is often lost in the successive ...
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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