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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... hands. But the poets take another way, and Spenser is as true a poet as he is a mystic. He has “ looked at the world in the spirit of love.” He has seen and fallen in love with “ this worlds faire workemanship,” and for him Ate has ...
... hands. But the poets take another way, and Spenser is as true a poet as he is a mystic. He has “ looked at the world in the spirit of love.” He has seen and fallen in love with “ this worlds faire workemanship,” and for him Ate has ...
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... hand “(v. 2, 30). The Giant has his eye on the world around him and sees “realmes and nations run awry,” and he undertakes to reduce them to equality again— 1 Froude, English Seamen, p. 8. 2 18 August 1572. Were it not good that wrong ...
... hand “(v. 2, 30). The Giant has his eye on the world around him and sees “realmes and nations run awry,” and he undertakes to reduce them to equality again— 1 Froude, English Seamen, p. 8. 2 18 August 1572. Were it not good that wrong ...
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... hand in the 18th century. Few can have loved Chaucer in that day as Spenser did; indeed English taste, missing his secret, was looking to other models—” our maker, therefore, at these days shall not follow Piers Plowman, nor Gower, nor ...
... hand in the 18th century. Few can have loved Chaucer in that day as Spenser did; indeed English taste, missing his secret, was looking to other models—” our maker, therefore, at these days shall not follow Piers Plowman, nor Gower, nor ...
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... hand has a vision in “Isis church,” and Scudamour to win Amoret goes through great adventures in the Castle and shrine of Venus. But it is surprising how Christian Isis and Venus have become. Then there are the gardens—that of ...
... hand has a vision in “Isis church,” and Scudamour to win Amoret goes through great adventures in the Castle and shrine of Venus. But it is surprising how Christian Isis and Venus have become. Then there are the gardens—that of ...
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... hand ... And as his hand he up againe did reare, Thinking to worke on her his utmost wracke, His powrelesse arme, benumbd with secret feare, From his revengefull purpose shronke abacke, And cruell sword out of his fingers slacke Fell ...
... hand ... And as his hand he up againe did reare, Thinking to worke on her his utmost wracke, His powrelesse arme, benumbd with secret feare, From his revengefull purpose shronke abacke, And cruell sword out of his fingers slacke Fell ...
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