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Which poet commonly uses the image of a mower in his poems?

Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?                   He is a brittle crazie glasse: Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford                   This glorious and transcendent place,                   To be a window, through thy grace.   But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie,                   Making thy life to shine within The holy Preachers; then the light and glorie                   More rev’rend grows, & more doth win:                   Which else shows watrish, bleak, & thin.   Doctrine and life, colours and light, in one                   When they combine and mingle, bring A strong regard and aw: but speech alone                   Doth vanish like a flaring thing,                   And in the eare, not conscience ring.

When Milton describes false teachers as “blind mouths,” he is using what literary device?

Pilgrim’s Progress is which of the following types of literature in addition to allegorized spiritual autobiography?

Which prose style is associated with journalism, science, and popular literacy?

Who added a Golden Age to the pastoral? 

Pilgrim’s Progress is which of the following types of literature in addition to allegorized spiritual autobiography?

Which prose style is associated with journalism, science, and popular literacy?

Which poet writes poetry praising or at least picturing positively “cleanly wantonness” and “harmless folly”?

I can love both fair and brown; Her whom abundance melts, and her whom want betrays; Her who loves loneness best, and her who masks and plays; Her whom the country form’d, and whom the town; Her who believes, and her who tries; Her who still weeps with spongy eyes, And her who is dry cork, and never cries. I can love her, and her, and you, and you; I can love any, so she be not true.