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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... once accepted, had made his own impression despite the faults which the critic—it is true, an admiring critic—had found in him. But now I was thrown back on another question which I had to solve, for the unexamined life is after all, as ...
... once accepted, had made his own impression despite the faults which the critic—it is true, an admiring critic—had found in him. But now I was thrown back on another question which I had to solve, for the unexamined life is after all, as ...
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... once wrote of “Spenser's frosty allegories,” but he cannot have been much out-of-doors in Fairyland, or he would have known its gentle airs better and perhaps found women after his own heart in Una and Britomart. Little has been said so ...
... once wrote of “Spenser's frosty allegories,” but he cannot have been much out-of-doors in Fairyland, or he would have known its gentle airs better and perhaps found women after his own heart in Una and Britomart. Little has been said so ...
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... once Apocalyptic and Platonic. The tenderness and healing power of Truth have rarely been so well drawn. On through repentance and forgiveness to the heavenly vision Una has brought her knight, and now he can slay the dragon. The battle ...
... once Apocalyptic and Platonic. The tenderness and healing power of Truth have rarely been so well drawn. On through repentance and forgiveness to the heavenly vision Una has brought her knight, and now he can slay the dragon. The battle ...
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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