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. |
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... French poet du Bellay, whose sonnets had appeared only the year before, and others in rhyme from Petrarch. Years after, Spenser re-issued them—the Visions of Petrarch little changed, the others rhymed as sonnets. One thought, to be met ...
... French poet du Bellay, whose sonnets had appeared only the year before, and others in rhyme from Petrarch. Years after, Spenser re-issued them—the Visions of Petrarch little changed, the others rhymed as sonnets. One thought, to be met ...
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... French, nor Italian; and he who would master its secrets must obey—neither pedant nor poet—but the language itself. Spenser listened to his own mother tongue while the rest theorized, and he learnt it—learnt its cadences, its ...
... French, nor Italian; and he who would master its secrets must obey—neither pedant nor poet—but the language itself. Spenser listened to his own mother tongue while the rest theorized, and he learnt it—learnt its cadences, its ...
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... French Renaissance in England, pp. 184, 185. Shepheards Calender, Julye. English readers were quick to recognize that they had a new poet among them. “The Shepheards Calender hath much poetry in his Eglogues,” wrote Sidney. “Sorry I am ...
... French Renaissance in England, pp. 184, 185. Shepheards Calender, Julye. English readers were quick to recognize that they had a new poet among them. “The Shepheards Calender hath much poetry in his Eglogues,” wrote Sidney. “Sorry I am ...
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