Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660Offers new interpretations of poems by Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace, and looks at five themes in seventeenth century English poetry. |
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... Charles's own defense , a claim which came to be endorsed by both sides for different reasons . But earlier , with Charles on the move so much , and with his various headquarters being overrun , there were opportunities for revelations ...
... Charles's own defense , a claim which came to be endorsed by both sides for different reasons . But earlier , with Charles on the move so much , and with his various headquarters being overrun , there were opportunities for revelations ...
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... Charles's word which shows him to be a man not worthy of trust . The ballad refers , in turn , to words which he has purportedly committed to paper in different places : a “ commission " to the Irish allowing them to cut English throats ...
... Charles's word which shows him to be a man not worthy of trust . The ballad refers , in turn , to words which he has purportedly committed to paper in different places : a “ commission " to the Irish allowing them to cut English throats ...
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... Charles's life had become . But Lovelace , it turns out , is more interested in Lely's art than in Charles's suffering , and a more straightforward inter- pretation of that piece of syntax makes the eyes Lely's , not Charles's , re ...
... Charles's life had become . But Lovelace , it turns out , is more interested in Lely's art than in Charles's suffering , and a more straightforward inter- pretation of that piece of syntax makes the eyes Lely's , not Charles's , re ...
Contents
Thresholds I | 1 |
Praising and Blaming | 15 |
Strafford and Buckingham | 41 |
Copyright | |
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Andrew Marvell Appleton House ballad Ben Jonson blush breath Buckingham Carew celebration century ceremony Charles Charles's church close common contrast Corbett court Davenant dead death Donne's dost doth Duke Earl of Strafford Edmund Waller Edward King English epigram eyes fair fate fear Felton's give hair hath heart heaven Henry Vaughan Herbert Herrick Herrick's poem Hesperides Ibid ideal Inigo Jones John John Milton Jonson Julia king king's lady lines live look Lovelace Lovelace's Lycidas lyric Marvell's masques Milton muse never offer Paradise Lost peace piece play poem's poet poet's Poetaster poetry praise princes proverb Puritan queen reader restoration rhyme Richard Lovelace rose royal Sciography seas sense seventeenth seventeenth-century sexual Shakespeare ship snake song sonnet soul stanza Strafford sweet thee things thou tion turns unto verse virgin vision Waller's wind word write wrote