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... concerned in land litigation ( as , incidentally , was the mystic Henry Vaughan ) . The land is also a major theme of seventeenth - century poetry . Country- house verse is obviously concerned with the power of property , and Jonson is ...
... concerned in land litigation ( as , incidentally , was the mystic Henry Vaughan ) . The land is also a major theme of seventeenth - century poetry . Country- house verse is obviously concerned with the power of property , and Jonson is ...
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... concerned with individuality only in relation to society . So far as the poem goes Falk- land exists as a social being . His talents may be private , in so far as schol- arship is a private activity , but their significance is as ...
... concerned with individuality only in relation to society . So far as the poem goes Falk- land exists as a social being . His talents may be private , in so far as schol- arship is a private activity , but their significance is as ...
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... concerned than the other two poets to commemorate his subject by making him a model of virtue . This model is , in the first paragraph , a general one , where Lovelace's youth is ' an ab- stract of the World's best parts ' , during ...
... concerned than the other two poets to commemorate his subject by making him a model of virtue . This model is , in the first paragraph , a general one , where Lovelace's youth is ' an ab- stract of the World's best parts ' , during ...
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Abraham Cowley Absalom and Achitophel achievement Achitophel Appleton House awareness Ben Jonson Butler Carew Charles Christ Civil classical Cleveland concerned contemporary context contrast Cooper's Hill Cotton country house country-house poems court courtly Cowley Cowley's Crashaw critical Cromwell Davenant death Denham Donne Donne's Drayton Dryden edited Elizabethan England English epic Epigrams Epistle feeling Fletcher Gondibert Herbert heroic Herrick Horatian Hudibras idea ideal individual interest Jacobean James John John Donne Jonson King King's literary Literature London Lord Lovelace Lycidas MacFlecknoe Marvell Marvell's Milton mock-heroic monarch offers Oldham Oxford Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament pastoral Penshurst Phineas Fletcher poem's poet poet-figure poet's poetic poetry political Poly-Olbion praise present reader religious Rochester Rochester's royalist Samson Samson Agonistes Satan satire satirist secular seems seen sense seventeenth century social society Song Spenser stanza stress style Suckling suggests thee theme thou tradition Vaughan verse Waller writing