Studies in Poetry

Absalom According achieved Achitophel action alliteration ancient appeared beauty become begins Book Byron called century character characteristic Christian Church classical Coleridge conception considered criticism deal death developed Donne Donne's Dryden early effect elegy element Elizabethan emotions England English epic essentially example experience expression fact Faerie Queene feeling genius gives human ideal ideas imagination important influence intellectual interest Italy John Keats Keats's language lines literary literature lived Lycidas medieval Metaphysical Milton mind moral movement nature never origin Paradise Lost passion perfect period philosophical Platonism poem poet poetic poetry political Pope present principle Puritanism qualities reason reflects Reformation religious Renaissance represented Romantic Satan satire sense Shelley shows similes social sonnets soul speech Spenser spirit stanza style theme theory things thought tion tradition true universal verse whole Wordsworth writing