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... imaginative writer who made a significant contribution to the modern art of story - telling . John Milton JOHN MILTON ( 1608-74 ) was the son of a London scrivener , a cultivated and sympathetic man . Sent to St Paul's School , where ...
... imaginative writer who made a significant contribution to the modern art of story - telling . John Milton JOHN MILTON ( 1608-74 ) was the son of a London scrivener , a cultivated and sympathetic man . Sent to St Paul's School , where ...
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... imaginative evocation , not unlike Denham's Cooper's Hill , of the landscape surrounding his parents ' house at Binfield . In 1717 , having just celebrated his twenty - ninth birthday , he felt sufficiently well - established to issue ...
... imaginative evocation , not unlike Denham's Cooper's Hill , of the landscape surrounding his parents ' house at Binfield . In 1717 , having just celebrated his twenty - ninth birthday , he felt sufficiently well - established to issue ...
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... imaginative artist , though undoubtedly a man of great executive gifts . Writing quickly and carelessly for the money he needed to support the way of life that he had chosen , he never fully realized his promise . All his novels have ...
... imaginative artist , though undoubtedly a man of great executive gifts . Writing quickly and carelessly for the money he needed to support the way of life that he had chosen , he never fully realized his promise . All his novels have ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Age of Chaucer | 16 |
The English Renaissance 335 | 35 |
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Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man Ann Cline Kelly No preview available - 2002 |