Seventeenth-century Verse and Prose: Wishes : to his (supposed) mistresseMacmillan, 1951 Volume One: Poets included are Lancelot Andrewes, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Robert Burton, Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, George Wither, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Thomas Carew, Sir Thomas Browne, Sir William Davenant, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan. |
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... Donne's language , being so logical , finds its chief force in noun and verb and adjective that defines activity , rather than qualifying . His stanzas in the Songs and Sonnets are individual , not traditional ; they take their form ...
... Donne's language , being so logical , finds its chief force in noun and verb and adjective that defines activity , rather than qualifying . His stanzas in the Songs and Sonnets are individual , not traditional ; they take their form ...
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... Donne's ac- tivity was thus dramatically changed , it may be doubted if the essential genius of the man had been much altered . The same wide - ranging curiosity and ingenuity of mind which had made ... Donne's Life , " 72 DONNE JOHN.
... Donne's ac- tivity was thus dramatically changed , it may be doubted if the essential genius of the man had been much altered . The same wide - ranging curiosity and ingenuity of mind which had made ... Donne's Life , " 72 DONNE JOHN.
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... Donne's Life , " in E. M. Simpson , A Study of the Prose Works of John Donne ( 2nd ed . , 1948 ) . Popular biographical interpretations are H. I. Fausset , John Donne : A Study in Dis- cord ( 1924 ) , and E. Hardy , Donne : A Spirit in ...
... Donne's Life , " in E. M. Simpson , A Study of the Prose Works of John Donne ( 2nd ed . , 1948 ) . Popular biographical interpretations are H. I. Fausset , John Donne : A Study in Dis- cord ( 1924 ) , and E. Hardy , Donne : A Spirit in ...
Contents
The Seventeenth Century 16001660 | 1 |
THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND | 13 |
A Selected List of Books on the Background and the Literature of the First | 29 |
Copyright | |
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