A Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, 1964 |
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... reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . At any rate , it is in this spirit that the Guide is offered to the general reader . For this reason it does not set out to compete with the standard Histories ...
... reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . At any rate , it is in this spirit that the Guide is offered to the general reader . For this reason it does not set out to compete with the standard Histories ...
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... reader of Milton's poetry is not , indeed , the nature of his theological doctrine or his value as a moral teacher , but the extent to which theology and morality are transmuted into poetry . But no estimate of his poetry can be arrived ...
... reader of Milton's poetry is not , indeed , the nature of his theological doctrine or his value as a moral teacher , but the extent to which theology and morality are transmuted into poetry . But no estimate of his poetry can be arrived ...
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... reader , we should remember that intense religious feeling ( as in Psalm 91 or in the poetry of John of the Cross ) is little concerned about the reader's convenience ; and ( since the poem is a prayer ) we should recognize the common ...
... reader , we should remember that intense religious feeling ( as in Psalm 91 or in the poetry of John of the Cross ) is little concerned about the reader's convenience ; and ( since the poem is a prayer ) we should recognize the common ...
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Andrew Marvell Anglican argument baroque Ben Jonson Browne Bunyan C. H. Herford Cambridge Carew Cavalier characteristic Charles Christian Church Civil classical common conceits contemporary Court Cowley Crashaw criticism death divine Donne's dramatic E. M. W. Tillyard effect elegies Elizabethan emotional English essay experience expression F. R. Leavis feeling Garden gentry Herbert Grierson History Hobbes Holy human imagery intellectual John Donne Jonson kind L. C. Knights language Latin Leviathan literary literature London lyric manner Marvell Marvell's medieval Metaphysical Poets Milton mind moral nature Oxford pamphlets Paradise Lost passages passion period philosophy Pilgrim's Progress poem poetic poetry political prose Puritan reader Religio Medici religion religious Renaissance Restoration Royalist satire sense Sermons seventeenth century Shakespeare Sir Thomas social society songs soul spirit stanza style Suckling suggests T. S. Eliot theme theological thou thought tion tone tradition universe Vaughan verse vols Waller whole words writing wrote