Literary Criticism of 17Th Century EnglandThis 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 Poetry, and Donne Idea of a Woman. p> he selection is excellent?The introduction is most admirable and ?Tayler wisely is generous with explanations and identifications?His most volume supplants Sringarn as THE best collection of seventeenth-century criticism.?/p>Seventeenth-Century News Winter 1967 |
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... Poems [1656] 296 ODE: OF WIT [before 1656] 308 THE MUSE [before 1656] 310 Thomas Sprat FROM The History of the Royal-Society [1667] 316 John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A SESSION OF THE POETS [1676/71 326 John Dryden APOLOGY FOR HEROIQUE ...
... poem and a poetical oration, in which one can see the poetry in the prose and the rhetoric in the poetry.” Knowing that the chameleon acquires his color only indirectly, from the leaf on which he perches, does not make him any the less ...
... poetic moil out of which came the different, yet affiliated, “strong [or, as we now say, “metaphysical”] lines” of ... poem declares a “subtle concord” among “extreme knowables," and the conceit itself represents an “intellectual act ...
... poets were exploring a Variety of means to imitate the ordered Nature that is the “Art of God,” the critics were perfecting in the heat of contro— versy those antithetical categories that still exert their negative influence on ...
... Poets. Given limitations such as these, it might be argued, with no more than a modest affection for paradox, that ... poems to the press, where in the midst of all the hyperbolic hackwork and extravagant eulogy there occasionally appear ...
Contents
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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 |
Selected Bibliography
| 425 |
Index
| 429 |