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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... took and burnt Kilcolman Castle. Twenty years later Ben Jonson told the 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 ...
... took and burnt Kilcolman Castle. Twenty years later Ben Jonson told the 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 ...
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... took place, 2 and the Pope coined his medal to celebrate it. Englishmen then had no doubts as to the spirit and nature of the Roman Church, and here again Spenser stood with his countrymen. Another characteristic feature of the time ...
... took place, 2 and the Pope coined his medal to celebrate it. Englishmen then had no doubts as to the spirit and nature of the Roman Church, and here again Spenser stood with his countrymen. Another characteristic feature of the time ...
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... took then directions they were not to leave. So far England had had one great poet, but two centuries had changed her speech and Chaucer was not wholly intelligible. Pronunciation in particular had shifted, and men, while they read him ...
... took then directions they were not to leave. So far England had had one great poet, but two centuries had changed her speech and Chaucer was not wholly intelligible. Pronunciation in particular had shifted, and men, while they read him ...
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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