id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt sq87br89p91 James Cotton Destruction: A Renaissance Ideal from Spenser to Dryden 2019 .txt text/plain 165 9 43 Through the metaphor of destruction, poets addressed the problem of social change, attacked opposing ideas, or held up an instructive mirror of warning for England. When they portrayed destruction as tragic, they likened it to a hostile attack on human life with the loss of unrecoverable beauty or cultural heritage. cache/sq87br89p91.txt txt/sq87br89p91.txt