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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... leave so strong a sense of a permanent enrichment of one's life? There can be no doubt that one great cause of this is the power of sheer beauty over the mind. It invades and it penetrates, and insensibly it brings peace. O! turne thy ...
... leave so strong a sense of a permanent enrichment of one's life? There can be no doubt that one great cause of this is the power of sheer beauty over the mind. It invades and it penetrates, and insensibly it brings peace. O! turne thy ...
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... leave his bride to serve the Faerie Queene 1 Cf. Milton, P. L., ix. 1115. Such of late Columbus found the American, so girt With feather'd cincture, naked else and wild Among the trees on isles and woody shores. 2 Rennell Rodd, Raleigh ...
... leave his bride to serve the Faerie Queene 1 Cf. Milton, P. L., ix. 1115. Such of late Columbus found the American, so girt With feather'd cincture, naked else and wild Among the trees on isles and woody shores. 2 Rennell Rodd, Raleigh ...
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... leave. So far England had had one great poet, but two centuries had changed her speech and Chaucer was not wholly intelligible. Pronunciation in particular had shifted, and men, while they read him with enthusiasm, could never be sure ...
... leave. So far England had had one great poet, but two centuries had changed her speech and Chaucer was not wholly intelligible. Pronunciation in particular had shifted, and men, while they read him with enthusiasm, could never be sure ...
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... leave him. In a world of change he has found rest, and that of no abstract or impersonal kind. When I bethinke me on that speech whyleare Of Mutabilitie, and well it way! Me seemes, that though she all unworthy were Of the Heav'ns Rule ...
... leave him. In a world of change he has found rest, and that of no abstract or impersonal kind. When I bethinke me on that speech whyleare Of Mutabilitie, and well it way! Me seemes, that though she all unworthy were Of the Heav'ns Rule ...
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