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Entered from the Sun By George Garrett Doubleday, 349 pages, $19.95 By his own accounts, George Garrett has for almost 40 years been a ”persistent kind of tourist” in Elizabethan England ...
The golden era of Elizabethan literature may be said to date its commencement from the seven years which lie between 1579 and 1587--in other words, with the first characteristic poems of Spenser ...
An MIT professor’s study of lyric poetry in Elizabethan England, a children’s book about a freckled 7-year-old girl, and Vice President JD Vance’s best-selling memoir about his working-class ...
What made Elizabethan poetry great, above all, was the fearlessness with which it plunged into the problem of consciousness itself. No item of man’s awareness was too trivial to be noted, ...
Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642. By FELIX E. SCHELLING, Professor in the University of Pennsylvania. 2 vols. Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Co. 1908. ↩ The Age of Shakespeare.
Between Jonson and his Tribe, however, stands another figure. If Jonson himself represents a link between the Silver Age of Elizabethan poetry and the age of the Cavalier poets, then Thomas Carew ...
"An inquisitive and semi-barbarous public coupled with a group of men, as well as patrons, of letters saved the Elizabethan dramatists from the unpardonable fault of dullness," said T.S. Eliot '10 ...
Dr. Enck's special field is Elizabethan literature: his Ph.D. thesis was on Ben Jonson, and his course at Harvard will be English S-123, a study of several Shakespearian plays.
Papp brought classics to outer-borough neighborhoods of New York, to people unaccustomed to hearing Elizabethan poetry recited beneath their fire escapes; and perhaps most famously to the ...
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