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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... later he was entered at Pembroke Hall, 3 and almost simultaneously a book appeared in which were printed without his name some lines that are certainly his —a pleasant conjunction of excitements. The lines were some blank verse ...
... later he was entered at Pembroke Hall, 3 and almost simultaneously a book appeared in which were printed without his name some lines that are certainly his —a pleasant conjunction of excitements. The lines were some blank verse ...
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... later Ben Jonson told the story to Drummond of Hawthornden—” that Spencer's goods were robbed by the Irish, and his house and a little child burnt, he and his wife escaped, and after died for want of bread in King Street; he refused 20 ...
... later Ben Jonson told the story to Drummond of Hawthornden—” that Spencer's goods were robbed by the Irish, and his house and a little child burnt, he and his wife escaped, and after died for want of bread in King Street; he refused 20 ...
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... later on the growing of tobacco was forbidden in England. The ships of England were not merely engaged in Spenser's day in discovery. The Red Cross Knight has to leave his bride to serve the Faerie Queene 1 Cf. Milton, P. L., ix. 1115 ...
... later on the growing of tobacco was forbidden in England. The ships of England were not merely engaged in Spenser's day in discovery. The Red Cross Knight has to leave his bride to serve the Faerie Queene 1 Cf. Milton, P. L., ix. 1115 ...
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... later cantos of the sixth book are substantially a rendering, not literal but Spenserian, of the Greek romance of Daphnis and Chloe, and perhaps the intricacy or even confusion of books iii. and iv. owes something to the influence of ...
... later cantos of the sixth book are substantially a rendering, not literal but Spenserian, of the Greek romance of Daphnis and Chloe, and perhaps the intricacy or even confusion of books iii. and iv. owes something to the influence of ...
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... later times thinges more unknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene, That nothing is but that which he hath seene? What if within the Moones fayre shining spheare, What if in every other starre unseene Of other ...
... later times thinges more unknowne shall show. Why then should witlesse man so much misweene, That nothing is but that which he hath seene? What if within the Moones fayre shining spheare, What if in every other starre unseene Of other ...
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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