Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660Harvard University Press, 1990 - 394 Seiten Offers new interpretations of poems by Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace, and looks at five themes in seventeenth century English poetry. |
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... dead and the dead upon the living is one of seventeenth - century poetry's major concerns . Having no body to bury makes Milton restore it at the end of Lycidas , the sea giving it back at the moment when the poet celebrates Edward ...
... dead and the dead upon the living is one of seventeenth - century poetry's major concerns . Having no body to bury makes Milton restore it at the end of Lycidas , the sea giving it back at the moment when the poet celebrates Edward ...
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... dead , Himself is turned to food ... This is standard epitaph wit , but the poem ends with something more interesting in its contrast of the dead good man with the many living selfish ones : Such descants poor men make ; who miss him ...
... dead , Himself is turned to food ... This is standard epitaph wit , but the poem ends with something more interesting in its contrast of the dead good man with the many living selfish ones : Such descants poor men make ; who miss him ...
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... dead ; hence the careful statement of the first line , making clear the difference between us and them . They , for all their individuality , are part of that anonymous crowd labeled " the dead , " the city more populous than London ...
... dead ; hence the careful statement of the first line , making clear the difference between us and them . They , for all their individuality , are part of that anonymous crowd labeled " the dead , " the city more populous than London ...
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Thresholds I | 1 |
Praising and Blaming | 15 |
Strafford and Buckingham | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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action appear ballad become begins Bermudas body called century Charles Charles's church close comes common contrast court dead death describes doth English epigram example experience expression eyes face fair fall fear final follow give given hair hand hath head heart Herbert Herrick hope idea ideal John Jonson keep kind king king's lady least leave light lines live look lost means Milton mind move nature never offer once opening peace perhaps piece play poem poet poetry political possible praise present proverb Puritan reader rest restoration rose seas seems sense Shakespeare ship soul stand stanza sweet thee things thou thought tion true turns unto verse whole wind write written