Excerpt from The Religious Tendency in the English Literary Criticism of the Seventeenth Century

With the Renaissance new influences began to be felt in literature. The changes in the material world were reflected in the world of thought. The effect of the discovery of America was to stimulate and encourage the spirit of exploration and ad.

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