Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1Volume One: Poets included are Lancelot Andrewes, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Robert Burton, Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, George Wither, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Thomas Carew, Sir Thomas Browne, Sir William Davenant, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan. |
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His emblems are poems written to " illustrate " a collection of Dutch emblem engravings , some of which , as well as of Withers ' verses , go back to Alciati's emblems . Of the two types of emblems then prevailing , Wither very ...
His emblems are poems written to " illustrate " a collection of Dutch emblem engravings , some of which , as well as of Withers ' verses , go back to Alciati's emblems . Of the two types of emblems then prevailing , Wither very ...
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He revised the poems of The Temple already written , and composed the remainder of that volume , amounting perhaps to more than half of it . He wrote the whole of A Priest to the Temple , his manual for the guidance of the country ...
He revised the poems of The Temple already written , and composed the remainder of that volume , amounting perhaps to more than half of it . He wrote the whole of A Priest to the Temple , his manual for the guidance of the country ...
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A close study of the war - poems in Olor Iscanus makes the conclusion that he saw war- service in 1645 almost certain , and it is probable that the Lieutenant Henry Vaughan of Brecon whose name occurs in a post - Restoration list of ...
A close study of the war - poems in Olor Iscanus makes the conclusion that he saw war- service in 1645 almost certain , and it is probable that the Lieutenant Henry Vaughan of Brecon whose name occurs in a post - Restoration list of ...
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Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
A Selected List of Books on the Background and the Literature of the First | 29 |
Francis Bacon | 43 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Volume 1 Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose, Helen Constance White |
| Author | Helen Constance White |
| Editor | Helen Constance White |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1951 |
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