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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... criticism, the less sure one's faith in critical canons, and the fewer the canons themselves. Of one thing, though, I grow more and more sure,—that the real business of the critic is to find out what is right with a great work of art ...
... criticism, the less sure one's faith in critical canons, and the fewer the canons themselves. Of one thing, though, I grow more and more sure,—that the real business of the critic is to find out what is right with a great work of art ...
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... critic, who saw some of the proofs, has asked me, with a hint of irony, whether Evelyn and Boswell were Puritans or Poets. Any reader who has a conscience about the matter must omit these essays. POETS AND PURITANS SPENSER SOME time ago ...
... critic, who saw some of the proofs, has asked me, with a hint of irony, whether Evelyn and Boswell were Puritans or Poets. Any reader who has a conscience about the matter must omit these essays. POETS AND PURITANS SPENSER SOME time ago ...
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... criticism. Happily this time I laid the critic down and took the poet up again, and read on till the Blatant Beast was captured by Sir Calidore, though to be sure, as the poet says and as I had perhaps reason to believe, it escaped, and ...
... criticism. Happily this time I laid the critic down and took the poet up again, and read on till the Blatant Beast was captured by Sir Calidore, though to be sure, as the poet says and as I had perhaps reason to believe, it escaped, and ...
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... critic in 1586, “that I cannot find none other with whom I might couple him in his rare gift of poetry.” We come now to the Faerie Queene. In a prefatory letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh and calculated to “give great light to the ...
... critic in 1586, “that I cannot find none other with whom I might couple him in his rare gift of poetry.” We come now to the Faerie Queene. In a prefatory letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh and calculated to “give great light to the ...
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... critic has well spoken of it as “not lost, but still not salient among the profuse beauties of his inexhaustible treasures of poetry.” 3 Nothing is salient in his verse, all is harmony. Sir Guyon moves on through the Garden, The lines ...
... critic has well spoken of it as “not lost, but still not salient among the profuse beauties of his inexhaustible treasures of poetry.” 3 Nothing is salient in his verse, all is harmony. Sir Guyon moves on through the Garden, The lines ...
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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