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Page 86
... praise the moral potential and achievements of individ- uals based at court , but he contemplates the courtly as embodiment of the good life . Of course , it would be absurd to identify court with town , but court none the less is urban ...
... praise the moral potential and achievements of individ- uals based at court , but he contemplates the courtly as embodiment of the good life . Of course , it would be absurd to identify court with town , but court none the less is urban ...
Page 96
... praise are made more than flattery , through the promi- nence and consistency of social ethics and through the constant effort to relate praise of the individual to analysis of society at large . But the manner of Jonson's epigrams ...
... praise are made more than flattery , through the promi- nence and consistency of social ethics and through the constant effort to relate praise of the individual to analysis of society at large . But the manner of Jonson's epigrams ...
Page 111
... praise the King and Queen , but praise of them is also praise of Anne , for it is her art which has realized their qualities and thus , formally , led to the poet's praise of them . In both stanzas , Anne's achievements are seen in ...
... praise the King and Queen , but praise of them is also praise of Anne , for it is her art which has realized their qualities and thus , formally , led to the poet's praise of them . In both stanzas , Anne's achievements are seen in ...
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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