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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... example and the Law , / By whom the good are taught , not kept in awe " ; but in the context of the conventional excesses of panegyric poetry , Davenant's allusion to the dearly bought treaties of Susa and Madrid is emphatic , if coded ...
... example and the Law , / By whom the good are taught , not kept in awe " ; but in the context of the conventional excesses of panegyric poetry , Davenant's allusion to the dearly bought treaties of Susa and Madrid is emphatic , if coded ...
Page 129
... example for everyone in the final stanza : THE STAND And such a force the fair example had , As they that saw The good , and durst not practise it , were glad That such a law Was left yet to mankind ; Where they might read , and find ...
... example for everyone in the final stanza : THE STAND And such a force the fair example had , As they that saw The good , and durst not practise it , were glad That such a law Was left yet to mankind ; Where they might read , and find ...
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... example of Jonson's painting Shakespeare in his own im- age . ' I would suggest that this reaction amounts to a curious disregard for the large amount of learning which Shakespeare put into his plays , enough to keep the academic ...
... example of Jonson's painting Shakespeare in his own im- age . ' I would suggest that this reaction amounts to a curious disregard for the large amount of learning which Shakespeare put into his plays , enough to keep the academic ...
Contents
Thresholds I | 1 |
Praising and Blaming | 15 |
Strafford and Buckingham | 41 |
Copyright | |
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