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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... human poten- tialities was necessarily followed by a sharper sense of the contrast with the unchanging limitations of human existence , and that signs of this kind of disenchantment are frequent in the early seventeenth century . In ...
... human poten- tialities was necessarily followed by a sharper sense of the contrast with the unchanging limitations of human existence , and that signs of this kind of disenchantment are frequent in the early seventeenth century . In ...
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... human pilgrim progressing towards Heaven through a series of vivid encounters with human beings ) ; nor by Shakespeare ( who , in presenting a profound study of human char- acter , abstains from personal moral judgements ) . Even the ...
... human pilgrim progressing towards Heaven through a series of vivid encounters with human beings ) ; nor by Shakespeare ( who , in presenting a profound study of human char- acter , abstains from personal moral judgements ) . Even the ...
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... human unity are kept fairly steadily before our eyes . His own kind of preoccupation with God makes the essential themes sufficiently salient , but leads him into a neglect of the human means by which greater appeal and force could be ...
... human unity are kept fairly steadily before our eyes . His own kind of preoccupation with God makes the essential themes sufficiently salient , but leads him into a neglect of the human means by which greater appeal and force could be ...
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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