Seventeenth-century English Poetry, Volume 2Miriam Kosh Starkman Knopf, 1967 - Civilization, Modern Volume 1 includes writings by John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Thomas Traherne, and Richard Crashaw. |
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... poet , even when he is writ- ing at his most social is , in fact , congregational . The poets in this volume may also reasonably be grouped in a common histor- ical unity , both in what they reacted to in English poetry and in what they ...
... poet , even when he is writ- ing at his most social is , in fact , congregational . The poets in this volume may also reasonably be grouped in a common histor- ical unity , both in what they reacted to in English poetry and in what they ...
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... poets of the nineteenth century as following in the line of Marvell's transcendentalism as it absorbed and secularized at least one major strain of the devotional impulse of the seven- teenth century . These large familial relationships ...
... poets of the nineteenth century as following in the line of Marvell's transcendentalism as it absorbed and secularized at least one major strain of the devotional impulse of the seven- teenth century . These large familial relationships ...
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... Poets that lasting marble seek , Must carve in Latin , or in Greek ; We write in sand , our language grows , And , like the tide , our work o'erflows . 10 Chaucer his sense can only boast ; The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have ...
... Poets that lasting marble seek , Must carve in Latin , or in Greek ; We write in sand , our language grows , And , like the tide , our work o'erflows . 10 Chaucer his sense can only boast ; The glory of his numbers lost ! Years have ...
Contents
Ben Jonson | 3 |
Her man described by her owne Dictamen | 9 |
Abraham Cowley cont | 16 |
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