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... literary coteries at Court , the universities , and in London , some patrons among the nobility , and a somewhat larger popular readership among the small middle class ; but there was an insufficient reader- ship for serious literature ...
... literary coteries at Court , the universities , and in London , some patrons among the nobility , and a somewhat larger popular readership among the small middle class ; but there was an insufficient reader- ship for serious literature ...
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... literary followers known as the ' sons ' or ' Tribe of Ben ' . Jonson's literary ideas and practice influenced the work of lesser writers of his time and continued to be explored and developed by later generations . He transformed the ...
... literary followers known as the ' sons ' or ' Tribe of Ben ' . Jonson's literary ideas and practice influenced the work of lesser writers of his time and continued to be explored and developed by later generations . He transformed the ...
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... literary market- place , such works as Paradise Lost , Absalom and Achitophel , Cotton's Scarronides , The Hind and ... literary lives , literary history and criticism . Literary biographies early in the century are mostly eulogies ...
... literary market- place , such works as Paradise Lost , Absalom and Achitophel , Cotton's Scarronides , The Hind and ... literary lives , literary history and criticism . Literary biographies early in the century are mostly eulogies ...
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