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... Elizabethan . In doing these things we sim- ultaneously register significant change and distort the record . One way ... Elizabethan ' verse is written well into the Stuart period . 22 It should be added that there is a sense in which ...
... Elizabethan . In doing these things we sim- ultaneously register significant change and distort the record . One way ... Elizabethan ' verse is written well into the Stuart period . 22 It should be added that there is a sense in which ...
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... Elizabethan courtly poetry is never public in the sense of actually being the voice of the population at large ( any more than the Elizabethan homilies can properly be construed as expressing the na- tion's views about political ...
... Elizabethan courtly poetry is never public in the sense of actually being the voice of the population at large ( any more than the Elizabethan homilies can properly be construed as expressing the na- tion's views about political ...
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... Elizabethan lyricist . This urgency and individualism are manifest in several ways , but can usefully be seen in the context of sixteenth century court lyric . Although the sonnet is capable of great subtlety , it provides a basically ...
... Elizabethan lyricist . This urgency and individualism are manifest in several ways , but can usefully be seen in the context of sixteenth century court lyric . Although the sonnet is capable of great subtlety , it provides a basically ...
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