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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... suggest simply the play of an ingenious fancy . In his best work , however , it has imaginative intensity and the ... suggesting the emblem ( The Collar , The Pulley ) , or it may be extended into a short allegorical narrative ...
... suggest simply the play of an ingenious fancy . In his best work , however , it has imaginative intensity and the ... suggesting the emblem ( The Collar , The Pulley ) , or it may be extended into a short allegorical narrative ...
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... suggests mature choice and an enlargement of spirit , which is communicated most naturally in images of spring and renewal of life , as in The Flower . Herbert's best work embodies the religious temper of the seventeenth century at its ...
... suggests mature choice and an enlargement of spirit , which is communicated most naturally in images of spring and renewal of life , as in The Flower . Herbert's best work embodies the religious temper of the seventeenth century at its ...
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... suggests that he was an elegant trifler , it hardly gives a fair notion of his best work . His elegy on Donne is both a moving tribute and a remarkable piece of criti- cism , successfully handling the pentameter couplet with Donne's ...
... suggests that he was an elegant trifler , it hardly gives a fair notion of his best work . His elegy on Donne is both a moving tribute and a remarkable piece of criti- cism , successfully handling the pentameter couplet with Donne's ...
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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