Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-century PoetryThis series of case studies examines the degree and extent to which some dozen particular seventeenth-century poems deal with the history of the time out of which they came. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Merry Bishop on the Death | 23 |
James Shirley | 41 |
Copyright | |
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