Cross-currents in 17th Century English Literature

Aeschylus allegory Anglican Baxter bear-baiting beauty Bunyan Cambridge Platonists Catholic century character Christ Christian Church conflict Court courtly critic Cromwell Dante death delight discipline divine doctrine Donne doth drama dramatists Dryden Elizabethan England English ethical Evangelical evil Faerie Queene faith father feeling God's grace hath heart Heaven HISTRIOMASTIX holy honour Hudibras human nature humanist ideal imagination imputed righteousness interest John Dryden John Milton Jonson King learned literature loue love-poetry lover man's marriage mediaeval ment Milton mind Montaigne moral never Othello pagan Paradise Lost passion Petrarch pious plays poem poet poetry political Presbyterian Protestant Protestantism Prynne Puritan reason Reformation religion religious Renaissance repentance revival romance Saints Samson Agonistes Satan satire says secular sense serious sermons Shakespeare songs sonnets soul Spenser spirit story taste temper thee theme theology things thou thought tion toleration tragedy Troilus and Criseyde unto verse virtue words