A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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... verse has a warmer quality and a fondness for paradoxical wit that connect him with such Catholic poets as the Elizabethan Southwell and the Caroline Crashaw . The Fletchers form an import- ant link between Spenser and Milton . Much ...
... verse has a warmer quality and a fondness for paradoxical wit that connect him with such Catholic poets as the Elizabethan Southwell and the Caroline Crashaw . The Fletchers form an import- ant link between Spenser and Milton . Much ...
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... verse , and the lines are harder to distinguish . This is partly because of the more varied functions that prose has to serve - prac- tical , informative , persuasive , rhetorical , artistic functions which at this time were not clearly ...
... verse , and the lines are harder to distinguish . This is partly because of the more varied functions that prose has to serve - prac- tical , informative , persuasive , rhetorical , artistic functions which at this time were not clearly ...
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... verse , either discursive or amatory . His first volume , Poems , contains such titles as Les Amours and To Amoret ... verse ] , was the blessed man , Mr George Herbert , whose holy life and verse gained many pious Con- verts ( of whom I ...
... verse , either discursive or amatory . His first volume , Poems , contains such titles as Les Amours and To Amoret ... verse ] , was the blessed man , Mr George Herbert , whose holy life and verse gained many pious Con- verts ( of whom I ...
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