The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659H. R. Woudhuysen, David Norbrook |
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... poetry of an almost ' confessional ' rawness . Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene is a critique as well as an ... poetry , especially in the earlier seventeenth century ( for example nos . 198 , 220 ) , we can find exaltations of nature ...
... poetry of an almost ' confessional ' rawness . Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene is a critique as well as an ... poetry , especially in the earlier seventeenth century ( for example nos . 198 , 220 ) , we can find exaltations of nature ...
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... poet's prophetic status . Milton outdoes classical poetry with a poetic evocation of the music of divine creation which pagan myths only dimly recalled . The young Milton was already foreshadowing his epic project of lifting ' Human ...
... poet's prophetic status . Milton outdoes classical poetry with a poetic evocation of the music of divine creation which pagan myths only dimly recalled . The young Milton was already foreshadowing his epic project of lifting ' Human ...
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... poetry : for all standeth upon dialogues ' . " ( Plato's uneasi- ness with rhetoric perhaps leaves a trace , however , in the suggestion that poetry's beauty is but skin - deep . ) The poet , wrote Sidney , was a ' right popular ...
... poetry : for all standeth upon dialogues ' . " ( Plato's uneasi- ness with rhetoric perhaps leaves a trace , however , in the suggestion that poetry's beauty is but skin - deep . ) The poet , wrote Sidney , was a ' right popular ...
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Æsops armes beauty brest Countess of Pembroke court Cupid dayes delight discourse Donne Donne's doth douth earth eccho ring England English eyes Faerie Queene faire farre feare flowers fortune George Puttenham golden grace Greensleeves hand hart hast hath heaven Hero humanist J. G. A. Pocock John JOHN DONNE Jove joyes Katherine Philips King Lady Lady Mary Wroth language Leander light live London Lord lovers lyke Mary Sidney minde Muse never night pleasure poem poetic poetry poets political praise Princes Queene Renaissance rhetoric seeme selfe shee Shepheards shew shining side-note Sidney sight sing Sir Philip Sidney song SONNET sorrow soule Spenser Sunne sweet tell texts thee theyr thine things thinke Thomas Nashe thos thou thought thow traditional tyme unto vallies Venus verse vertue warr weare wher woes women words
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English Literature in Context Paul Poplawski,Valerie Allen,Andrew Hiscock,Lee Morrissey No preview available - 2008 |