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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... called a “touchstone for insincerity.” No one, who read the Faerie Queene with an open heart, could think of Spenser as anything but one of the most deeply sincere of poets. For some his poetry lies too far away from the real. Yet if we ...
... called a “touchstone for insincerity.” No one, who read the Faerie Queene with an open heart, could think of Spenser as anything but one of the most deeply sincere of poets. For some his poetry lies too far away from the real. Yet if we ...
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... called Elizabeth and wrote his beautiful Epithalamion for her—the purest and most exquisite thing of the kind that bride ever had from lover. She too had “long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre” {EpithaL 154). They had four years of ...
... called Elizabeth and wrote his beautiful Epithalamion for her—the purest and most exquisite thing of the kind that bride ever had from lover. She too had “long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre” {EpithaL 154). They had four years of ...
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