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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... beauty , the poetry , of Spenser was felt by many of his followers to reside in his liquid diction and fluid movement , the magic of his verse and phrase , to think so was in it- self to accept his conception of art ; and his wide ...
... beauty , the poetry , of Spenser was felt by many of his followers to reside in his liquid diction and fluid movement , the magic of his verse and phrase , to think so was in it- self to accept his conception of art ; and his wide ...
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... beauty through the sensuous particulars in which they operated . Controlled , but rich and in- tricately patterned , detail and music made ornament , made beauty ; ornament was the general flowering in the particular , the idea embodied ...
... beauty through the sensuous particulars in which they operated . Controlled , but rich and in- tricately patterned , detail and music made ornament , made beauty ; ornament was the general flowering in the particular , the idea embodied ...
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... beauty of nature as a book of the creatures , awaking thought and contemplation to the good- ness and beauty of God . This view was closely associated with the allegorical in- terpretation of The Song of Songs as an expression of the ...
... beauty of nature as a book of the creatures , awaking thought and contemplation to the good- ness and beauty of God . This view was closely associated with the allegorical in- terpretation of The Song of Songs as an expression of the ...
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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