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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... death (16 Jan. 1599) may not actually have been for want of bread, but his spirit was broken. He was buried in Westminster Abbey near the grave of Chaucer, “his hearse being attended by poets, and mournful elegies and poems with the ...
... death (16 Jan. 1599) may not actually have been for want of bread, but his spirit was broken. He was buried in Westminster Abbey near the grave of Chaucer, “his hearse being attended by poets, and mournful elegies and poems with the ...
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... death the East India Company was formed in 1600. Hakluyt published in 1589 his book, “The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation made by Sea or over land to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of ...
... death the East India Company was formed in 1600. Hakluyt published in 1589 his book, “The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation made by Sea or over land to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of ...
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... death for the Queen were the Puritans of London and of the sea towns. Providentially, he held, they were few. The Jesuit was so far right in saying they would fight, but more than they fought for the Queen, for Howard was a Catholic ...
... death for the Queen were the Puritans of London and of the sea towns. Providentially, he held, they were few. The Jesuit was so far right in saying they would fight, but more than they fought for the Queen, for Howard was a Catholic ...
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... death, the chill of loss— the world itself—”the beauty and the wonder and the power “— Nothing is sure that growes on earthly grownd. (i. 9, ii.) These are the words of Prince Arthur. This is the state of Keasars and of Kings! Let none ...
... death, the chill of loss— the world itself—”the beauty and the wonder and the power “— Nothing is sure that growes on earthly grownd. (i. 9, ii.) These are the words of Prince Arthur. This is the state of Keasars and of Kings! Let none ...
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