Cross-currents in 17th Century English Literature: The World, the Flesh, and the Spirit, Their Actions and Reactions

Aeschylus allegory Anglican Baxter bear-baiting beauty Ben Jonson Bunyan Cambridge Cambridge Platonists Catholic century character Christ Christian Church condemnation conflict Court courtly critic Cromwell Dante death delight discipline divine doctrine Donne doth drama dramatists Dryden Elizabethan England English ethical Faerie Queene faith father feeling God's hath heart Heaven HISTRIOMASTIX holy honour Hudibras human nature humanist ideal imagination imputed righteousness interest John Dryden John Milton Jonson King learned literature Lord loue love-poetry lover marriage mediaeval ment mind Montaigne moral never Othello pagan Paradise Lost passion pastime Petrarch pious plays poem poet poetry political popular Presbyterian Protestant Prynne Puritan reason Reformation religion religious Renaissance romance Saints Satan satire says secular sense serious sermons Shakespeare songs sonnets soul speak Spenser spirit story taste temper thee theme theology things thou thought tion toleration tradition tragedy Troilus Troilus and Criseyde verse virtue words