Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660Offers new interpretations of poems by Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace, and looks at five themes in seventeenth century English poetry. |
Contents
Thresholds | 1 |
Praising and Blaming | 15 |
Strafford and Buckingham | 41 |
The King | 67 |
Ben Jonson at Court | 99 |
Ben Jonson in Bed | 121 |
Reading Shakespeare | 141 |
Lycidas | 176 |
Proverbs | 221 |
Going Round and Standing Still | 246 |
Civilized Behavior | 270 |
Embarrassing Positions | 295 |
Roses and Hair | 324 |
Loyalties | 347 |
Notes | 369 |
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Andrew Marvell Appleton House ballad Ben Jonson blush breath Buckingham Carew celebration century ceremony Charles Charles's church close common contrast Corbett court Davenant dead death describes Donne's dost doth Duke Earl of Strafford Edmund Waller Edward King English epigram eyes fate fear Felton's give hair hath heart heaven Henry Vaughan Herbert Herrick Herrick's poem Hesperides Ibid ideal Inigo Jones John John Milton Jonson Julia king king's lady lines live look Lovelace Lovelace's Lycidas lyric Marvell's masques Milton muse never offer Paradise Lost peace piece play poem's poet poet's Poetaster poetry praise princes proverb Puritan queen reader restoration rhyme Richard Lovelace rose royal Sciography seas sense seventeenth seventeenth-century sexual Shakespeare ship snake song sonnet soul stanza Strafford sweet thee things thou tion turns unto verse virgin vision Waller's wind word write wrote