Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... spirit of love . " Poetry depends on truth , on true feeling and true expression ; its essence is not delusion but interpretation . It has well been called a " touchstone for insincerity . " " No one , who read the Faerie Queene with an ...
... spirit of love . " Poetry depends on truth , on true feeling and true expression ; its essence is not delusion but interpretation . It has well been called a " touchstone for insincerity . " " No one , who read the Faerie Queene with an ...
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... spirit , so sensitive to all impressions of beauty , so happy in his knowledge of their meaning , so high and so pure , is it not possible that we too may look on the world at last in the spirit of love , and find that the golden Chain ...
... spirit , so sensitive to all impressions of beauty , so happy in his knowledge of their meaning , so high and so pure , is it not possible that we too may look on the world at last in the spirit of love , and find that the golden Chain ...
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... spirit was broken . He was buried in Westminster Abbey near the grave of Chaucer , " his hearse being attended by poets , and mournful elegies and poems with the pens that wrote them thrown into his tomb " ( Camden ) . Spenser , like ...
... spirit was broken . He was buried in Westminster Abbey near the grave of Chaucer , " his hearse being attended by poets , and mournful elegies and poems with the pens that wrote them thrown into his tomb " ( Camden ) . Spenser , like ...
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... spirit and nature of the Roman Church , and here again Spenser stood with his countrymen . Another characteristic feature of the time meets us when Sir Arthegall , the Knight of Justice , comes upon the " mighty Gyant " with " an huge ...
... spirit and nature of the Roman Church , and here again Spenser stood with his countrymen . Another characteristic feature of the time meets us when Sir Arthegall , the Knight of Justice , comes upon the " mighty Gyant " with " an huge ...
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... spirit , as it is most pure , And hath in it the more of heavenly light , So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in , and it more fairely dight With chearefull grace and amiable sight ; For of the soule the bodie forme doth take ...
... spirit , as it is most pure , And hath in it the more of heavenly light , So it the fairer bodie doth procure To habit in , and it more fairely dight With chearefull grace and amiable sight ; For of the soule the bodie forme doth take ...
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