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... Herbert ( 1593-1633 ) against the charges of ' quaintness ' brought against him during the eighteenth and nineteenth ... Herbert's style may be , he has one of the strongest poetic personalities in English . Devotional though his poetry ...
... Herbert ( 1593-1633 ) against the charges of ' quaintness ' brought against him during the eighteenth and nineteenth ... Herbert's style may be , he has one of the strongest poetic personalities in English . Devotional though his poetry ...
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... Herbert's is useful in bringing out both the former's weaknesses and his originality . Our general impression is that Vaughan's advantage over Herbert lies in his longer breath , his greater fluency , and in what at first seems a more ...
... Herbert's is useful in bringing out both the former's weaknesses and his originality . Our general impression is that Vaughan's advantage over Herbert lies in his longer breath , his greater fluency , and in what at first seems a more ...
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... HERBERT , GEORGE ( 1593-1633 ) : Poet and priest ; b . Montgomery Castle ; son of Sir Richard Herbert and brother of Lord Herbert ; early contacts with Donne who was one of mother's friends ; Westminster School ; Trinity College ...
... HERBERT , GEORGE ( 1593-1633 ) : Poet and priest ; b . Montgomery Castle ; son of Sir Richard Herbert and brother of Lord Herbert ; early contacts with Donne who was one of mother's friends ; Westminster School ; Trinity College ...
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Andrew Marvell Anglican argument baroque Ben Jonson Browne Bunyan C. H. Herford Cambridge Carew Cavalier Charles Christian Church Civil classical common conceits contemporary Court Cowley Crashaw criticism death divine Donne's dramatic E. M. W. Tillyard effect elegies Elizabethan England Essays experience expression F. R. Leavis feeling Garden gentry Grierson Haller Herbert Grierson History Hobbes Holy human imagery intellectual Jacobean John Donne Jonson kind L. C. Knights language literary London lyric manner Marvell Marvell's medieval Metaphysical Poets Milton mind nature Oxford pamphlets Paradise Lost Parliament passages passion period philosophy Pilgrim's Progress poem poetic poetry political prose Puritan Revolution 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 whole writing wrote