... us from reading these readers as part of the "of poetic tradition. He makes the point that Donne and his followers continued in the dramatic tradition of their time, citing playwrights Marlowe, Webster as examples. He observes, with hindsight unavailable to Johnson, that an idea arose at s time and continued to at least the 19th century, that thoughts and impressions are ... -cheek) have become map-readers, studying him to discover the cause of impending death, just as cosmographers of the Age of Discovery studied the charts to find a passage through the American Continent to the Indies....

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