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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... responsiveness to beauty carries with it a converse in a heightened sensibility to impressions of pain and ugliness. This is not however all loss. Fair and 2 foul, foul-in-fair and fair-in-foul make this strange fabric and.
... responsiveness to beauty carries with it a converse in a heightened sensibility to impressions of pain and ugliness. This is not however all loss. Fair and 2 foul, foul-in-fair and fair-in-foul make this strange fabric and.
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... strange fabric and society we call the world. The great poets know them all, and better than the rest of us. Hence it is that Poetry is a thing (in the old definition) “ of more high seriousness, of more intensity, than History.” It is ...
... strange fabric and society we call the world. The great poets know them all, and better than the rest of us. Hence it is that Poetry is a thing (in the old definition) “ of more high seriousness, of more intensity, than History.” It is ...
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... weeds the Golden Hind entered Plymouth Sound on 26 September. She had been round the world, through seas no Englishman had sailed, strange oceans and archipelagoes. When men thought 1 of where Drake had sailed and what he had seen,
... weeds the Golden Hind entered Plymouth Sound on 26 September. She had been round the world, through seas no Englishman had sailed, strange oceans and archipelagoes. When men thought 1 of where Drake had sailed and what he had seen,
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... strange little corner of his poem. When Belphcebe finds “the soveraine weede “to heal the wounds of Timias, the poet is not quite certain whether yt divine Tobacco were, Or Panachaea, or Polygony (iii. 5, 32). King James had other ...
... strange little corner of his poem. When Belphcebe finds “the soveraine weede “to heal the wounds of Timias, the poet is not quite certain whether yt divine Tobacco were, Or Panachaea, or Polygony (iii. 5, 32). King James had other ...
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... strange monsters on land and in the sea, but perhaps no stranger than the seamen told of, who came back from the Eastern and Western seas—2 Spring-headed Hydres; and sea-shouldring Whales; Great whirlpooles which all fishes make to flee ...
... strange monsters on land and in the sea, but perhaps no stranger than the seamen told of, who came back from the Eastern and Western seas—2 Spring-headed Hydres; and sea-shouldring Whales; Great whirlpooles which all fishes make to flee ...
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