From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... Donne and Crashaw1 did , it was absolutely inevitable that other leaders should soon begin to write like Waller and Dryden . But there was more in the change to a classical taste than can be understood merely by a reference to our local ...
... Donne and Crashaw1 did , it was absolutely inevitable that other leaders should soon begin to write like Waller and Dryden . But there was more in the change to a classical taste than can be understood merely by a reference to our local ...
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... Donne , between Vondel and Milton . The robust poetry of Holland underwent no sudden change or development , for two reasons . In the first place , humanism had originally and universally lost more of its bloom and grace in coming to ...
... Donne , between Vondel and Milton . The robust poetry of Holland underwent no sudden change or development , for two reasons . In the first place , humanism had originally and universally lost more of its bloom and grace in coming to ...
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... preparing to add its quota to the verse of the Donne and Marini school . Meanwhile , though so little was published , a great deal was read . Each University , but Cam- The bridge in particular , was a hotbed of poetry 24 Poetry at the.
... preparing to add its quota to the verse of the Donne and Marini school . Meanwhile , though so little was published , a great deal was read . Each University , but Cam- The bridge in particular , was a hotbed of poetry 24 Poetry at the.
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... Donne's Poems printed earlier than 1633 , but their impress on the poetry of the preceding generation is " strongly marked . 2 Henry More , in 1642 , ushers in his Cambridge epic , the Psychozoia , with the usual defiance of the vulgar ...
... Donne's Poems printed earlier than 1633 , but their impress on the poetry of the preceding generation is " strongly marked . 2 Henry More , in 1642 , ushers in his Cambridge epic , the Psychozoia , with the usual defiance of the vulgar ...
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... Donne from hand to hand in an ecstasy , we can imagine him saying to himself , ' Are they mad to praise this coarse and obscure Progress of the Soul ? Are we doomed for ever to have to endure such verse as this , - 66 ' Virtue is soul ...
... Donne from hand to hand in an ecstasy , we can imagine him saying to himself , ' Are they mad to praise this coarse and obscure Progress of the Soul ? Are we doomed for ever to have to endure such verse as this , - 66 ' Virtue is soul ...
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