| Description |
xi, 162 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Chicago originals
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Chicago originals.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Beginnings: on being a missionary kid -- Whole comic plot of Falstaff -- Who wrote the first two Cambridge Parnassus plays? -- Why Ben Jonson did not claim The case is altered -- Macbeth and the Jesuit priest -- King James as Solomon, the Book of Proverbs, and Hall's Characters -- World harmony, John Donne, and Alexander Pope -- What happened to two of Herbert's poems? -- Who "confuted" John Milton in 1642? -- Browne's masterpiece Vulgar errors -- Why listen to a seventeenth-century funeral sermon? -- Jeremy Taylor versus "total depravity" -- Browne's 1656 "Letter to a friend" -- Putting Taylor's words to his music -- Vultures, Chinese land-ships, and Milton's "Paradise of fools." |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- History -- 17th century.
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) |
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History. |
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Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique. |
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Letterkunde. |
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Engels. |
| ISBN |
0226360881 paperback |
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9780226360881 paperback |
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