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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... meaning ; we cannot read it unless we recognize the lover's mood of humorous exasperation and allow its scornful emphases to play against the verse pattern - ' Busie old foole ' - ' Through windowes and through curtaines ' ( doubling ...
... meaning ; we cannot read it unless we recognize the lover's mood of humorous exasperation and allow its scornful emphases to play against the verse pattern - ' Busie old foole ' - ' Through windowes and through curtaines ' ( doubling ...
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... meaning in Donne's way ( or Shakespeare's ) : ... there it [ my heart ] was dipt and dy'd And washt and wrung : the very wringing yet Enforceth tears . Love Unknown This realistic strength underlying Herbert's grace of style is related ...
... meaning in Donne's way ( or Shakespeare's ) : ... there it [ my heart ] was dipt and dy'd And washt and wrung : the very wringing yet Enforceth tears . Love Unknown This realistic strength underlying Herbert's grace of style is related ...
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... meanings , and on the subtle use of rhythm . The word ' ballance ' suggests rhythmically its meaning . One can feel the swords crossing and sliding against each other , and the balance of the sword in the hand . With its further ...
... meanings , and on the subtle use of rhythm . The word ' ballance ' suggests rhythmically its meaning . One can feel the swords crossing and sliding against each other , and the balance of the sword in the hand . With its further ...
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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