Themes and Variations in English Poetry of the Renaissance

17th century aissance ancient Anniversary Aristotle Bacon beauty belief called Calvin Calvinistic Christ Christian faith Christian humanism Christian tradition Cicero CLAREMONT GRADUATE SCHOOL classical conception Copernicus course creation dance death despair divine doctrine Donne Donne's DOUGLAS BUSH dust earlier 17th earth doth earthly elegy Elizabethan Erasmus eternity ethical Faerie Queene Faustus FRANCIS BACON FOUNDATION Fulke Greville geocentric universe God's Going A-Maying grace Hamlet hast hath heaven heavenly Hooker's human humanist idea ideal imagination John Davies lectures less literature Lycidas man's medieval metaphysical Milton mind modern moral moral absolutes move Mutability mythic natural reason nature's pagan Paradise Lost pastoral Platonic poems poetry pride prose quoted rational order religious reminder Renaissance writer Robert Burton Sabbaoth sceptical scientific Shakespeare Sir Thomas sonnets soul Spenser's stanza synthesis takes thee theme things Thomas Digges thou thought tion tragedy truth universe utterance virtue wisdom