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... sometimes in Jonson's manner , sometimes in Donne's , and the poems of Thomas Stanley , a notable classical scholar and an often very agreeable minor poet , who combines some- thing of Donne's dialectical toughness with much use of the ...
... sometimes in Jonson's manner , sometimes in Donne's , and the poems of Thomas Stanley , a notable classical scholar and an often very agreeable minor poet , who combines some- thing of Donne's dialectical toughness with much use of the ...
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... sometimes direct and sometimes indirect : sometimes , that is , he appropriates Shakespearean phrases without , or with only slight , modifica- tion ; sometimes , especially in personifications , he uses phrases and images which ...
... sometimes direct and sometimes indirect : sometimes , that is , he appropriates Shakespearean phrases without , or with only slight , modifica- tion ; sometimes , especially in personifications , he uses phrases and images which ...
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... sometimes more and sometimes less modified by his Christianity . The present passage , I am inclined to say , is essentially Platonic , and perhaps only in the Apocalytic allusion to ' Sainted seats ' at all distinctively Christian ...
... sometimes more and sometimes less modified by his Christianity . The present passage , I am inclined to say , is essentially Platonic , and perhaps only in the Apocalytic allusion to ' Sainted seats ' at all distinctively Christian ...
Contents
Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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