A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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... Death . A second Dance of Death passed over Europe . A taste for the macabre permeated French drama of the period as well as the Jacobean drama . The skeleton became a decorative element of Italian mortuary monuments and the grim ...
... Death . A second Dance of Death passed over Europe . A taste for the macabre permeated French drama of the period as well as the Jacobean drama . The skeleton became a decorative element of Italian mortuary monuments and the grim ...
Page 103
... death which are to follow . The second stanza depends on the reader's knowledge of the meaning , in alchemy , of ' quintessence ' - the fifth , and therefore extremely pure , distilla- tion : Love has ' pressed out ' A quintessence even ...
... death which are to follow . The second stanza depends on the reader's knowledge of the meaning , in alchemy , of ' quintessence ' - the fifth , and therefore extremely pure , distilla- tion : Love has ' pressed out ' A quintessence even ...
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... death , 1652 ; Latin Secretaryship to Commonwealth Government , 1649 ; became completely blind , 1652 ; married Katherine Woodcock , 1656 , and deplored her death in sonnet , 1658 ; began Paradise Lost probably c . 1658 ; prosecuted at ...
... death , 1652 ; Latin Secretaryship to Commonwealth Government , 1649 ; became completely blind , 1652 ; married Katherine Woodcock , 1656 , and deplored her death in sonnet , 1658 ; began Paradise Lost probably c . 1658 ; prosecuted at ...
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Andrew Marvell Anglican argument baroque Ben Jonson Book Bunyan C. H. Herford Cambridge Carew Cavalier characteristic Charles Christian Church Civil classical common conceits contemporary Court Cowley Crashaw critical death divine Donne's dramatic E. M. W. Tillyard effect elegies Elizabethan emotional Essays experience expression F. R. Leavis feeling garden gentry Herbert Grierson History Hobbes Holy human imagery intellectual Jacobean John Donne Jonson kind L. C. Knights language Latin literary London lyric manner Marvell's medieval Metaphysical Poets Metaphysical wit Milton mind mood moral nature Oxford pamphlets Paradise Lost passages passion period Pilgrim's Progress poem poetic poetry political prose Puritan reader religion religious Renaissance Restoration rhythm Royalist satire sense sermons Seventeenth Century Shakespeare Sir Herbert Grierson social society songs soul spirit stanza style Suckling suggests T. S. Eliot theme theological thou thought tion tone tradition universe Vaughan verse vols whole words writing wrote