The Divine ScienceColumbia University Press, 1940 - 292 Seiten Looks at English poetry from the 17th century, when its character changed radically. Examines the changes through the works of Ben Jonson, William Browne, George Wither, John Milton, and John Donne, among others. |
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... classical precedent for epistles and songs , lyrics that ex- celled the rigid sonnet in virtuosity and were better ... classical imitation turned lyric writers toward other subject matter at the dawn of the Augustan age . But the triumph ...
... classical precedent for epistles and songs , lyrics that ex- celled the rigid sonnet in virtuosity and were better ... classical imitation turned lyric writers toward other subject matter at the dawn of the Augustan age . But the triumph ...
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... classical comedy to further an almost medieval morality . But moral earnestness was not a purely medieval characteristic . Jonson as a pro- ponent of Renaissance poetic theory had early acknowledged as the only " genuine literary ...
... classical comedy to further an almost medieval morality . But moral earnestness was not a purely medieval characteristic . Jonson as a pro- ponent of Renaissance poetic theory had early acknowledged as the only " genuine literary ...
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... classical learning ( he informed Drummond that " he was better Versed & knew more in Greek and Latin than all the Poets in England " ) , he never felt any desire to write in the classical tongues . From the beginning his whole effort ...
... classical learning ( he informed Drummond that " he was better Versed & knew more in Greek and Latin than all the Poets in England " ) , he never felt any desire to write in the classical tongues . From the beginning his whole effort ...
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BEN JONSON | 16 |
MICHAEL DRAYTON | 47 |
WILLIAM BROWNE | 80 |
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Abraham Cowley artistic audience beauty Ben Jonson Britannia's Pastorals Browne Carew century classical Columbia Columbia ed comedy Complete Plays concept Cowley's Crashaw critics Davenant Defensio delight desire divine Donne doth Dramatic Drayton early English epic Epistles Essays fame Fletcher gift Giles Giles Fletcher glory Gondibert hath Herbert heroic Herrick Ibid idea imitation immortality inspiration Jonson language lbid lofty lyric Marvell Masque Metaphysical Poets Milton Mistress Muse nature noble numbers Odes Paradise Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd passion perfect Phineas Phineas Fletcher Pindar Plays and Sundry Poems of Abraham Poesie poet's Poetaster poetic theory Poly-Olbion praise preface prose purpose reader Reason of Church-government religious poetry Renaissance Richard Crashaw rime satire Satyre secular Seventeenth seventeenth-century shepherd sing Smectymnuus song sonnet Spenser spirit stanza style subject matter sweet teach thee theme theory of poetry things thou thought tion translation truth type of poetry Vergil virtue Whalley Wither worthy writing