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The Contradictory Nature of the Elizabethans
21 Sep 2022
The Contradictory Nature of the Elizabethans:
the Elizabethans … They had a passion for virtue and a genius for cruelty. They had wonderful manners and barbaric inclinations, lovely clothes and terrible diseases. They oscillated madly between the abstract and the corporeal. And among his contemporaries, nobody oscillated more madly than John Donne
Anthologies: Gratification, Economy of Small Pleasures, Accidental Civilisation, On Aesthetics, On (Un)happiness