From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... political crisis was beginning to darken the horizon , and men were troubled in their minds , seeking for exact information , interested in travels , in philo- sophy , above all , in theology . The great vogue of the Puritan divines was ...
... political crisis was beginning to darken the horizon , and men were troubled in their minds , seeking for exact information , interested in travels , in philo- sophy , above all , in theology . The great vogue of the Puritan divines was ...
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... political curiosity , which marked the decade before the Civil War , and which Charles , by his unimaginative obstinacy , fostered as studiously as if he had been a paid agent of revolt , this widening of the intellectual conscience ...
... political curiosity , which marked the decade before the Civil War , and which Charles , by his unimaginative obstinacy , fostered as studiously as if he had been a paid agent of revolt , this widening of the intellectual conscience ...
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... political results of that Queen's partiality for her fatherland . In point of fact , Drayton's poem would have been almost as charming and almost as popular if Mortimer had been named Amandus and the Queen Amanda . To comprehend the ...
... political results of that Queen's partiality for her fatherland . In point of fact , Drayton's poem would have been almost as charming and almost as popular if Mortimer had been named Amandus and the Queen Amanda . To comprehend the ...
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... political sympathies , with this craving for more simplicity and more regularity in literature , there came in another sentiment which was not so interesting or pretty . This was the decline of the spirit of adventure . The poetry of ...
... political sympathies , with this craving for more simplicity and more regularity in literature , there came in another sentiment which was not so interesting or pretty . This was the decline of the spirit of adventure . The poetry of ...
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... politics separated him still more from those who , in the far greater majority , were the supporters of literature , and when he began , in his own words , at the summons of God's secretary , Conscience , to " embark in a troubled sea ...
... politics separated him still more from those who , in the far greater majority , were the supporters of literature , and when he began , in his own words , at the summons of God's secretary , Conscience , to " embark in a troubled sea ...
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