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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... kind of literature was written in this period ? ' , ' Which authors matter most ? ' , ' Where does the strength of the period lie ? ' . ( iii ) Detailed studies of some of the chief writers and works in the period . Coming after the ...
... kind of literature was written in this period ? ' , ' Which authors matter most ? ' , ' Where does the strength of the period lie ? ' . ( iii ) Detailed studies of some of the chief writers and works in the period . Coming after the ...
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... kind of sermon oratory were Lancelot Andrewes ( 1555-1626 ) and Donne himself , though Donne's style has other qualities . Andrewes is intellectual and analytical , teasing every possible signi- ficance out of the words of his text and ...
... kind of sermon oratory were Lancelot Andrewes ( 1555-1626 ) and Donne himself , though Donne's style has other qualities . Andrewes is intellectual and analytical , teasing every possible signi- ficance out of the words of his text and ...
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... kind serves God far better than he . He is the very stain , reproach and shame of religion , to all that know him ; it can hardly have a good word in all that end of the town , where he dwells through him . Thus say the common people ...
... kind serves God far better than he . He is the very stain , reproach and shame of religion , to all that know him ; it can hardly have a good word in all that end of the town , where he dwells through him . Thus say the common people ...
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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