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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... divine and heroical matters . " The matter of poetry , according to Giles Fletcher , should ideally be the highest ; that is , the praise of God . But , in advocating the use of poetry for so glorious a purpose , Fletcher was confronted ...
... divine and heroical matters . " The matter of poetry , according to Giles Fletcher , should ideally be the highest ; that is , the praise of God . But , in advocating the use of poetry for so glorious a purpose , Fletcher was confronted ...
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... divine poetry was a very lofty type , and that divine subject matter was particularly well suited to the epic . He nowhere praises and seldom practices the divine lyric ; in the lyric his preference is for the noble abstract theme , as ...
... divine poetry was a very lofty type , and that divine subject matter was particularly well suited to the epic . He nowhere praises and seldom practices the divine lyric ; in the lyric his preference is for the noble abstract theme , as ...
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... divine , the didactic , and the purely delightful aim . His love poetry has the brilliance and verve of metaphysical wit ; he thinks of religious poetry with the " white sincerity " of a Donne ; he accepted that part of poetic theory ...
... divine , the didactic , and the purely delightful aim . His love poetry has the brilliance and verve of metaphysical wit ; he thinks of religious poetry with the " white sincerity " of a Donne ; he accepted that part of poetic theory ...
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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