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... secular and not religious poetry : there are one or two Christian references , as we shall see , but the discussion itself keeps to secular terms . So it is simply the goddess Nature , who is supreme over both Jove and Mutability , to ...
... secular and not religious poetry : there are one or two Christian references , as we shall see , but the discussion itself keeps to secular terms . So it is simply the goddess Nature , who is supreme over both Jove and Mutability , to ...
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... secular poem unrelated to ritual purposes . Sacred poetry , especially in the Golden Age of Spain , drew its inspiration from the sublimest of spheres , for the words and verses of the Bible are uniquely fitted to evoke a sense of the ...
... secular poem unrelated to ritual purposes . Sacred poetry , especially in the Golden Age of Spain , drew its inspiration from the sublimest of spheres , for the words and verses of the Bible are uniquely fitted to evoke a sense of the ...
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... secular , rationalistic learning . Wieland the elder and Williams represent a consummate , solipsistic individualism which is shared by Puritan and non - Puritan American alike . Within the Puritan community itself it surfaced either as ...
... secular , rationalistic learning . Wieland the elder and Williams represent a consummate , solipsistic individualism which is shared by Puritan and non - Puritan American alike . Within the Puritan community itself it surfaced either as ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Tradition and Style of Biblical Wisdom Literature | 19 |
Parody and Authority in the Pardoners Tale | 43 |
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