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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... Lord Grey of Wilton, from whom he afterwards drew Sir Arthegall, the Knight of Justice with the Yron Man, Talus, for his squire. An iron man was needed. The Irish were in rebellion, and Spanish and Italian adventurers were holding ...
... Lord Grey of Wilton, from whom he afterwards drew Sir Arthegall, the Knight of Justice with the Yron Man, Talus, for his squire. An iron man was needed. The Irish were in rebellion, and Spanish and Italian adventurers were holding ...
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... Lord Burleigh. 1 He was brought into the next three books in one or two places for his saying. Spenser went back to Ireland, sick of the Court. In 1594 he married a lady called Elizabeth and wrote his beautiful Epithalamion for her—the ...
... Lord Burleigh. 1 He was brought into the next three books in one or two places for his saying. Spenser went back to Ireland, sick of the Court. In 1594 he married a lady called Elizabeth and wrote his beautiful Epithalamion for her—the ...
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... Lord Ch. Howard high Admiral of England “is full of the great victory of 1588— Sith those huge castles of Castilian King, That vainly threatned kingdomes to displace, Like flying doves ye did before you chace. The whole poem is one of ...
... Lord Ch. Howard high Admiral of England “is full of the great victory of 1588— Sith those huge castles of Castilian King, That vainly threatned kingdomes to displace, Like flying doves ye did before you chace. The whole poem is one of ...
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... Lord of Love” cast to redeem him and pay the price. Out of the bosome of eternall blisse, In which he reigned with his glorious syre, He downe descended, like a most demisse And abject thrall, in fleshes fraile attyre, That He for him ...
... Lord of Love” cast to redeem him and pay the price. Out of the bosome of eternall blisse, In which he reigned with his glorious syre, He downe descended, like a most demisse And abject thrall, in fleshes fraile attyre, That He for him ...
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