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... Puritans were strongly opposed to poetry , yet the greatest poet of the age , Milton , was a Puritan . Much of the Cavalier poetry is light and trifling - love- songs , Court poems , and so on ; a great deal of rubbish , with every now ...
... Puritans were strongly opposed to poetry , yet the greatest poet of the age , Milton , was a Puritan . Much of the Cavalier poetry is light and trifling - love- songs , Court poems , and so on ; a great deal of rubbish , with every now ...
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... Puritan party . The bitter downfall of the Puritan hopes is set forth in the ruin of the strong and gifted Samson , but in the end Samson triumphs , his victory over his enemies is in his death , and the last words of the poem seem ...
... Puritan party . The bitter downfall of the Puritan hopes is set forth in the ruin of the strong and gifted Samson , but in the end Samson triumphs , his victory over his enemies is in his death , and the last words of the poem seem ...
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... Puritan and Republican party . The main idea seems to have been borrowed from Cervantes ' " Don Quixote ; " but it ... Puritan . Even the virtues of the Puritans were held up to ridicule , and extravagance in Character- behaviour ...
... Puritan and Republican party . The main idea seems to have been borrowed from Cervantes ' " Don Quixote ; " but it ... Puritan . Even the virtues of the Puritans were held up to ridicule , and extravagance in Character- behaviour ...
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