Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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Page 36
... tradition of chivalry and that had turned the studious or naively enthusiastic Renaissance classicizing and poetizing of an earlier period into something intimately bound up with con- temporary life and manners - something consciously ...
... tradition of chivalry and that had turned the studious or naively enthusiastic Renaissance classicizing and poetizing of an earlier period into something intimately bound up with con- temporary life and manners - something consciously ...
Page 48
... tradition some obvious reflections present themselves - for it is patently decay that any repre- sentative handful of Restoration lyrics illustrates . Charles II was a highly intelligent man of liberal interests , and his mob of ...
... tradition some obvious reflections present themselves - for it is patently decay that any repre- sentative handful of Restoration lyrics illustrates . Charles II was a highly intelligent man of liberal interests , and his mob of ...
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... tradition in his satirical mode , it is well to recall the conditions of our praise . The eighteenth century is littered with epics , odes , and philosophical poems that are traditional in the academic sense ; the " forms " and the ...
... tradition in his satirical mode , it is well to recall the conditions of our praise . The eighteenth century is littered with epics , odes , and philosophical poems that are traditional in the academic sense ; the " forms " and 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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