Childhood and Cultural Despair: A Theme and Variations in Seventeenth-century Literature

actual Adam adult Anglican appear become beginning body Book called century child childhood childish Christ Christian church Crashaw created cultural death devotion discussion divine doctrine earlier early earth England English epigrams experience fall Father figure follow garden George give given grace heaven Herbert Herrick History holy human idea ideal infant innocence interest Jesus John language learning least light literature live London look Lord lost Marvell Marvell's means medieval mind mother nature Noble Numbers offers once original Oxford parents past pattern play playful poems poet poetry political practice Press Puritan religious retreat seems seventeenth seventeenth-century sexual social soul spirit Temple thee things Thomas thou thought tion traditional Traherne unity Univ universe Vaughan verse vision whole writings York young