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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... soul, greatly gifted for experience. 1 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1800. Walter Raleigh, Shakesteare, p. 88. Spenser tells us that the Red Cross Knight, purified and strengthened by Truth, always does kill the dragon. Perhaps we shall ...
... soul, greatly gifted for experience. 1 Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1800. Walter Raleigh, Shakesteare, p. 88. Spenser tells us that the Red Cross Knight, purified and strengthened by Truth, always does kill the dragon. Perhaps we shall ...
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... souls asking for bodies. Infinite shapes of creatures there are bred. Their substance is eternal though “chaunged and often altred to and froe.” Time with his scythe is the one enemy to the happiness of flowers and lovers in that garden ...
... souls asking for bodies. Infinite shapes of creatures there are bred. Their substance is eternal though “chaunged and often altred to and froe.” Time with his scythe is the one enemy to the happiness of flowers and lovers in that garden ...
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... soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Or better still, there is Wordsworth's true and sympathetic judgment on the book itself—Sweet Spenser, moving through his clouded heaven, With the ...
... soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Or better still, there is Wordsworth's true and sympathetic judgment on the book itself—Sweet Spenser, moving through his clouded heaven, With the ...
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... . Beautie, 64-67.) On the contrary the “wondrous powre” attributed to “white and red “comçs from above, comes with the soul when it descends to human birth and the body. Therof it comes that these faire soules, which have The.
... . Beautie, 64-67.) On the contrary the “wondrous powre” attributed to “white and red “comçs from above, comes with the soul when it descends to human birth and the body. Therof it comes that these faire soules, which have The.
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