Poets and PuritansRoutledge, 2020 M11 5 - 336 pages Originally published in 1915, the essays in this book deal with 9 English writers – as diverse in outlook and temperament as Bunyan and Boswell; poets and Puritans and men who were neither. The book examines each writer in his historical and social context – facing problems in art or religion and life in general. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 27
Page
... work, and that, whatever other people may find it, to me it has been a delight and an illumination. T.R.G. ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, February 1915. CONTENTS SPENSER MILTON EVELYN BUNYAN COWPER BOSWELL CRAPER WORDSWORTH CARLYLE.
... work, and that, whatever other people may find it, to me it has been a delight and an illumination. T.R.G. ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, February 1915. CONTENTS SPENSER MILTON EVELYN BUNYAN COWPER BOSWELL CRAPER WORDSWORTH CARLYLE.
Page
T. R. Glover. CONTENTS. SPENSER MILTON EVELYN BUNYAN COWPER BOSWELL CRAPER WORDSWORTH CARLYLE –––––– INDEX An acute young critic, who saw some of the proofs, has asked me, with a hint of irony, whether Evelyn and Boswell were Puritans or ...
T. R. Glover. CONTENTS. SPENSER MILTON EVELYN BUNYAN COWPER BOSWELL CRAPER WORDSWORTH CARLYLE –––––– INDEX An acute young critic, who saw some of the proofs, has asked me, with a hint of irony, whether Evelyn and Boswell were Puritans or ...
Page
... Boswell, i. p. 49. Spenser's knights are men consecrated to honour and to high purpose, who live not for themselves but for duty and service. To Braggadochio, the comic figure of the poem, who plays at being a knight in virtue of ...
... Boswell, i. p. 49. Spenser's knights are men consecrated to honour and to high purpose, who live not for themselves but for duty and service. To Braggadochio, the comic figure of the poem, who plays at being a knight in virtue of ...
Page
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Page
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Account of Corsica Aldeburgh allegory Areopagitica beauty Boswell Boswell’s Bunyan called Cambridge Carlyle Carlyle’s Christian Church Church of England Coleridge Corsica Cowper Crabbe Crabbe’s criticism Cromwell death doth Dr Johnson England English eternal Evelyn experience eyes Faerie Queene fancy father feeling French Revolution George Crabbe George Fox God’s happy hath heart Heaven Hebrides Heroes Horace Walpole human humour imagination King knew Knight Lady Hesketh later Letter to Temple liberty lived London look Lord Lyrical Ballads man’s marriage Milton mind nature never Olney once Paoli Paradise Lost passage Pepys perhaps Pilgrim’s Progress Plato poem poet poet’s poetry poor Prelude Prose reader religion says seems sense soul Spenser spirit story strange talk tells things thou thought true truth Unwin verse wonder words Wordsworth writes wrote young