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... sense of literary development over a long period of time . But the tendency of such history is inevitably to- wards generalization and the loss of a sense of detail and individuality . Often , too , literary history has little to offer ...
... sense of literary development over a long period of time . But the tendency of such history is inevitably to- wards generalization and the loss of a sense of detail and individuality . Often , too , literary history has little to offer ...
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... sense of humour may owe something to Sid- ney . But Jonson's awareness of alternatives to idealization suggests an important link with Donne , a link which is essentially to do with implied criticism of the courtly . Donne , in a sense ...
... sense of humour may owe something to Sid- ney . But Jonson's awareness of alternatives to idealization suggests an important link with Donne , a link which is essentially to do with implied criticism of the courtly . Donne , in a sense ...
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... sense of doubt and balance come over as felt hatred and genuine fear . Here , in a sense , the clarity of Oldham's mind pays off , at least if we take ' clarity ' to include ' simplicity ' , for the harsh narrowness of these poems ...
... sense of doubt and balance come over as felt hatred and genuine fear . Here , in a sense , the clarity of Oldham's mind pays off , at least if we take ' clarity ' to include ' simplicity ' , for the harsh narrowness of these poems ...
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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