English Lyric Poetry: The Early Seventeenth CenturyEnglish Lyric Poetry is a comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of the early seventeenth century. The study is directed at both beginning and more advanced students of literature, and responds to more specialised scholarly inquiries pursued of late in relation to specific poets. This extremely lucid and elegantly written book avoids the limitations of much recent criticism. Donne, Jonson, the Spenserians, Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Vaughan, as well as many non-canonical and women poets, all receive sustained, fresh, and detailed analysis. Jonathan Post seeks to assimilate many of the post-New Critical theoretical concerns with readings of the major and minor, male and female, authors of the period. |
Contents
Ben Jonson and the art of inclusion | 23 |
Patriotic and popular poets | 54 |
Caroline am amusements | 91 |
Substance and style in George Herberts The Temple | 135 |
Milton in the 1645 Poems | 156 |
blood bread and poetry in Henry | 190 |
women poets of the earlier | 210 |
Here at the Fountains Sliding Foot | 253 |
Notes | 287 |
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