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Page 51
... interest in the ethical . It should be added that his poems also show little concern with the doctrinal or congregational . His poet - figure is representative only in so far as it is not highly individualized , but it represents only ...
... interest in the ethical . It should be added that his poems also show little concern with the doctrinal or congregational . His poet - figure is representative only in so far as it is not highly individualized , but it represents only ...
Page 59
... interest focused on king and court , we have to put the evidence of local and class interest which emerges when we look , for instance , at the so - called gentry controversy , or at the complex pulls of loyalty before and during the ...
... interest focused on king and court , we have to put the evidence of local and class interest which emerges when we look , for instance , at the so - called gentry controversy , or at the complex pulls of loyalty before and during the ...
Page 175
... interest , even if Davenant himself had not been primarily interested in story . But his decision to in- vent means that he needs to interest a reader in his narrative or to provide some compensation for lack of narrative excitement ...
... interest , even if Davenant himself had not been primarily interested in story . But his decision to in- vent means that he needs to interest a reader in his narrative or to provide some compensation for lack of narrative excitement ...
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