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... poet's family inheritance . According to early biographers , his Oxfordshire grandfather had in Elizabeth's reign held out as a Roman Catholic recusant and disinherited his son John , the poet's father , for turning Protestant . That ...
... poet's family inheritance . According to early biographers , his Oxfordshire grandfather had in Elizabeth's reign held out as a Roman Catholic recusant and disinherited his son John , the poet's father , for turning Protestant . That ...
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... poet before Milton had achieved anything like his imaginative , verbal , and rhythmical crescendo . The ordered process of nature can again be appealed to , in the analogy of the sun , and images of water , no longer woeful , reach a ...
... poet before Milton had achieved anything like his imaginative , verbal , and rhythmical crescendo . The ordered process of nature can again be appealed to , in the analogy of the sun , and images of water , no longer woeful , reach a ...
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... poet " had cut us all out . " Aubrey was the first narrator of a still more famous story about the origin of Dryden's operatic version of the poem , The State of Innocence : John Dryden , Esq . , Poet Laureate , who very much admires ...
... poet " had cut us all out . " Aubrey was the first narrator of a still more famous story about the origin of Dryden's operatic version of the poem , The State of Innocence : John Dryden , Esq . , Poet Laureate , who very much admires ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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