A Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, 1964 |
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Page 40
... 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 important 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 important link between Spenser and Milton . Much ...
Page 62
... 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 ...
Page 180
... verse has met . Milton's verse moves with relatively little variety of speed or em- phasis . The main point of interest , instead of being precisely localized or standing in sharp relief from the rest , is often lost in the successive ...
... verse has met . Milton's verse moves with relatively little variety of speed or em- phasis . The main point of interest , instead of being precisely localized or standing in sharp relief from the rest , is often lost in the successive ...
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