Literary Criticism of 17th Century EnglandEdward W. Tayler This collection of writings by English Renaissance poets and essayists includes poems and essays by Ben Jonson, George Chapman and Samuel Daniel. Excerpts from Francis Bacon, John Milton, William Drummond, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley. The book also surveys the origins, range and development of literary taste and practice in 16th and 17th century England. Then, as now, poets anchored their lines between the poles of tradition and inspiration, loyalty and liberty, art and truth. Edward W. Tayler is the emeritus Lionel trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His other books include Nature and Art in the Renaissance, Milton抯 Poetry, and Donne抯 Idea of a Woman. p> 揟he selection is excellent?The introduction is most admirable and ?Tayler wisely is generous with explanations and identifications?His most volume supplants Sringarn抯 as THE best collection of seventeenth-century criticism.?/p>Seventeenth-Century News Winter 1967 |
Contents
Introduction
| 3 |
George Chapman
| 33 |
Samuel Daniel
| 47 |
Ben Jonson
| 74 |
Sir Francis Bacon
| 145 |
Dudley North 3rd Baron North
| 157 |
Edmund Bolton
| 167 |
Michael Drayton
| 177 |
Andrew Marvell
| 291 |
Abraham Cowley
| 295 |
Thomas Sprat
| 315 |
John Wilmot Earl of Rochester
| 325 |
John Dryden
| 330 |
Joseph Glanvill
| 352 |
Samuel Butler
| 358 |
Sir William Soames
| 363 |
John Milton
| 184 |
Sir Kenelm Digby
| 202 |
William Drummond of Hawthornden
| 214 |
Thomas Carew
| 217 |
Henry Reynolds
| 224 |
George Herbert
| 259 |
Sir John Suckling
| 263 |
Sir William Davenant or DAvenant
| 269 |
Thomas Hobbes
| 278 |
Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon
| 377 |
Francis Atterbury
| 390 |
Charles Gildon
| 397 |
George Granville Baron Lansdowne
| 409 |
Appendix
| 419 |
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