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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... direct statement or as lofty formal decorum , together with subject - matter of social and political interest . The Metaphysical balance of passion and argument , imagination and reason , settles towards the rational side , and in ...
... direct statement or as lofty formal decorum , together with subject - matter of social and political interest . The Metaphysical balance of passion and argument , imagination and reason , settles towards the rational side , and in ...
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... direct simplicity which was to blend easily with homely speech in some of the Puritan pamphleteers and in Bunyan . The pursuit of eloquence and wit , either singly or in various com- binations , made possible the expression of many ...
... direct simplicity which was to blend easily with homely speech in some of the Puritan pamphleteers and in Bunyan . The pursuit of eloquence and wit , either singly or in various com- binations , made possible the expression of many ...
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... direct colloquial expression of truth . Bunyan has precisely these qualities , and his work , while employing an allegorical method of great integrity , is charged with language pre - eminently suitable for telling legends , fables ...
... direct colloquial expression of truth . Bunyan has precisely these qualities , and his work , while employing an allegorical method of great integrity , is charged with language pre - eminently suitable for telling legends , fables ...
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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