A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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Page 126
... writers turned in a more deliberate way than they had hitherto to the exploration of the quirks and oddities of personality . There was , for example , the vogue of eccen- tricity , practised with varying degrees of self - consciousness ...
... writers turned in a more deliberate way than they had hitherto to the exploration of the quirks and oddities of personality . There was , for example , the vogue of eccen- tricity , practised with varying degrees of self - consciousness ...
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... writing ; leader of ' literary ' life in Edinburgh and wrote courtly poem Forth Feasting to commemorate visit of ... writer , poet , scholar , and clergyman ( bishop ) ; Merton College , Oxford ; Fellow , 1619 ; won fame by publication ...
... writing ; leader of ' literary ' life in Edinburgh and wrote courtly poem Forth Feasting to commemorate visit of ... writer , poet , scholar , and clergyman ( bishop ) ; Merton College , Oxford ; Fellow , 1619 ; won fame by publication ...
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... writing and conversation ; published Philosophical Poems , 1647 ; published An Antidote against Atheism , 1652 , and ... writer ; second ed . of poem , A Wife now the widow of Sir Thomas Overbury , included twenty - two prose characters ...
... writing and conversation ; published Philosophical Poems , 1647 ; published An Antidote against Atheism , 1652 , and ... writer ; second ed . of poem , A Wife now the widow of Sir Thomas Overbury , included twenty - two prose characters ...
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