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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... political subtexts too . " His list of rules whereby we may find the real purposes of apparently innocuous poems is an admirable piece of critical theory , vitiated only by his unwillingness to attempt any readings of specific poems ...
... political subtexts too . " His list of rules whereby we may find the real purposes of apparently innocuous poems is an admirable piece of critical theory , vitiated only by his unwillingness to attempt any readings of specific poems ...
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... political maneuverings . Some of Corbett's later poems show how combative panegyric poetry had become by the 1630s ... politics . When Corbett wrote his poem celebrating the birth of a male heir , instead of merely praising the worth and ...
... political maneuverings . Some of Corbett's later poems show how combative panegyric poetry had become by the 1630s ... politics . When Corbett wrote his poem celebrating the birth of a male heir , instead of merely praising the worth and ...
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... political purpose in the chosen quotations . For example , illustrating how " two singulars are put for one plural " : " All Authority , and Custom of men , exalted against the word of God , must yield themselves prisoners . " " Or ...
... political purpose in the chosen quotations . For example , illustrating how " two singulars are put for one plural " : " All Authority , and Custom of men , exalted against the word of God , must yield themselves prisoners . " " Or ...
Contents
Thresholds I | 1 |
Praising and Blaming | 15 |
Strafford and Buckingham | 41 |
Copyright | |
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