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... write in isolation . They knew each other and they knew many other writers , of various types and manners . ' Followers ' of Donne and Jonson would know their work , but not only their work , and literary influence is seldom a simple ...
... write in isolation . They knew each other and they knew many other writers , of various types and manners . ' Followers ' of Donne and Jonson would know their work , but not only their work , and literary influence is seldom a simple ...
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... write are centres of civilization . Jonson's Penshurst , in fact , is an exemplum of what a civilized state should be , and the poet sees himself as a visitor to the house . Neither he nor Carew sees himself as representative of the ...
... write are centres of civilization . Jonson's Penshurst , in fact , is an exemplum of what a civilized state should be , and the poet sees himself as a visitor to the house . Neither he nor Carew sees himself as representative of the ...
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... writing , reinforcing the basic satiric device of seeing experience in terms of black and white , and it allows Cow ... write Absalom and Achitophel he made Shaftesbury a figure of real ability and menace , thereby creating a threat to ...
... writing , reinforcing the basic satiric device of seeing experience in terms of black and white , and it allows Cow ... write Absalom and Achitophel he made Shaftesbury a figure of real ability and menace , thereby creating a threat to ...
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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