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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... thought, to be met several times in Spenser's later works, is found already here in a rendering itself strangely prophetic of what he was to do with the English language—Manie Muses, and the Nymphes withall, That sweetly in accord did ...
... thought, to be met several times in Spenser's later works, is found already here in a rendering itself strangely prophetic of what he was to do with the English language—Manie Muses, and the Nymphes withall, That sweetly in accord did ...
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... 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,
... 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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... thought that from mans mind doth flow— or even a single word? Can he weigh right against wrong, true against false? No, it proves that these cannot be weighed against each other. Talus, the iron squire, begins to suspect the Giant, and ...
... thought that from mans mind doth flow— or even a single word? Can he weigh right against wrong, true against false? No, it proves that these cannot be weighed against each other. Talus, the iron squire, begins to suspect the Giant, and ...
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... thought of Chaucer as a sort of precursor of the Reformation. Foxe, the Martyrologist (whose book appeared in 1563), says of him that he “no doubt, saw in religion as much almost as ever we do now, and uttereth in his works no less, and ...
... thought of Chaucer as a sort of precursor of the Reformation. Foxe, the Martyrologist (whose book appeared in 1563), says of him that he “no doubt, saw in religion as much almost as ever we do now, and uttereth in his works no less, and ...
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... thoughts. It was a book that reached Milton's heart and influenced his poetry in more ways than one. There were the bishops—” Those our admired Spenser inveighs against, not without some presage of these reforming times “; but the ...
... thoughts. It was a book that reached Milton's heart and influenced his poetry in more ways than one. There were the bishops—” Those our admired Spenser inveighs against, not without some presage of these reforming times “; but the ...
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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