Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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... religious sonnets and songs ; and their influence on subsequent poetry was even more obvious and potent . They are as personal and as tormented as his earlier " love - song weeds , " for his spiritual Aeneid was a troubled one . To date ...
... religious sonnets and songs ; and their influence on subsequent poetry was even more obvious and potent . They are as personal and as tormented as his earlier " love - song weeds , " for his spiritual Aeneid was a troubled one . To date ...
Page 148
... religious " in Donne's work : individual poems will not fall easily into such cat- egories ; nor can the poems be safely dated by assumptions about the more religious , and the less religious , periods of his life . II Donne may well ...
... religious " in Donne's work : individual poems will not fall easily into such cat- egories ; nor can the poems be safely dated by assumptions about the more religious , and the less religious , periods of his life . II Donne may well ...
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... religious beliefs , according to which the spirituality of saints and martyrs acted in similar analogy on the physical world . Metaphysical wit has here simply laicized , and pre- served in poetry , the substantiation of the ...
... religious beliefs , according to which the spirituality of saints and martyrs acted in similar analogy on the physical world . Metaphysical wit has here simply laicized , and pre- served in poetry , the substantiation of the ...
Contents
H J C GRIERSON Metaphysical Poetry 3 | 22 |
F R LEAVIS The Line of Wit | 31 |
HELEN GARDNER The Metaphysical Poets | 50 |
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