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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... story says, he fell in love with Rosalind, “the widdowes daughter of the glen.” Colin Clout says so, and says she would have none of him. This may have been essential for Idyllic purposes. In 1578 he came South again. The following year ...
... story says, he fell in love with Rosalind, “the widdowes daughter of the glen.” Colin Clout says so, and says she would have none of him. This may have been essential for Idyllic purposes. In 1578 he came South again. The following year ...
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... 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 pieces sent him by my lord ...
... 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 pieces sent him by my lord ...
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... story or not (i. 11,7), his sonnet to “the Lord Ch. Howard high Admiral of England “is full of the great victory of 1588— Sith those huge castles of Castilian King, That vainly threatned kingdomes to displace, Like flying doves ye did ...
... story or not (i. 11,7), his sonnet to “the Lord Ch. Howard high Admiral of England “is full of the great victory of 1588— Sith those huge castles of Castilian King, That vainly threatned kingdomes to displace, Like flying doves ye did ...
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... story of Cambuscan bold ... And of the wonderous horse of brass—that tale which Spenser tried to finish. With Chaucer Milton couples another poet—And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and.
... story of Cambuscan bold ... And of the wonderous horse of brass—that tale which Spenser tried to finish. With Chaucer Milton couples another poet—And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and.
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... story. “As for the twoo worthy Gentlemen, Master Sidney and Master Dyer, they have me, I thanke them, in some use of familiarity. ... And nowe they have proclaimed in their aessuvayy 1 1 a generall surceasing and silence of bald Rymers, ...
... story. “As for the twoo worthy Gentlemen, Master Sidney and Master Dyer, they have me, I thanke them, in some use of familiarity. ... And nowe they have proclaimed in their aessuvayy 1 1 a generall surceasing and silence of bald Rymers, ...
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