A Guide to English Literature: From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Cassell, 1962 A Russian couple wanted a child so much that they made one out of snow. |
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... classical models.5 ' I know nothing can conduce more to letters than to examine the writings of the ancients ' , he says . But he adds a recommendation not to rest in their sole authority , or take all upon trust from them ... for to ...
... classical models.5 ' I know nothing can conduce more to letters than to examine the writings of the ancients ' , he says . But he adds a recommendation not to rest in their sole authority , or take all upon trust from them ... for to ...
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... classical poems have a racy idiomatic quality , while his most colloquial poems frequently follow classical models . Jonson made no attempt to impose the idiom and syntax of the classical writers on the English language . The spirit in ...
... classical poems have a racy idiomatic quality , while his most colloquial poems frequently follow classical models . Jonson made no attempt to impose the idiom and syntax of the classical writers on the English language . The spirit in ...
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... classical world to the actualities of seventeenth - century London , with the accompanying sense of ironical contrast , distinguish Jonson from a poet such as Campian , and are a proof of his greatness . Because of the restraint imposed ...
... classical world to the actualities of seventeenth - century London , with the accompanying sense of ironical contrast , distinguish Jonson from a poet such as Campian , and are a proof of his greatness . Because of the restraint imposed ...
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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