The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century VerseAlastair Fowler The seventeenth century saw some of the great achievements in the English language. Milton wrote Paradise Lost, Donne composed his Metaphysical verse, and Shakespeare his late Romances, not to mention the work of Dryden, Marvell, Jonson, and many others. Now, this remarkable quantity of extraordinary literature has been brought together here in one large volume. Like the previous edition, all of the best known works are present, but this new edition also responds to considerable changes in scholarship and perspective in recent years. Popular and minor poets take a place alongside their more well known peers. Alastair Fowler, the collection's distinguished editor, has included a generous portion of poetry by women, as well as a sampling of American colonial verse, while also striking a balance between Metaphysical and Jonsonian poetry. |
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... heart so freshly bleeding , Upon it own self feeding , Whose wounds still dropping be ; O love , thyself confounding , Her coldness so abounding , And yet such heat in me . Yet ... hearts we brake , And from them 42 MICHAEL DRAYTON The Heart.
... heart so freshly bleeding , Upon it own self feeding , Whose wounds still dropping be ; O love , thyself confounding , Her coldness so abounding , And yet such heat in me . Yet ... hearts we brake , And from them 42 MICHAEL DRAYTON The Heart.
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... heart is run astray After two eyes that passed this way . Oyes , oyes , oyes , If there be any man In town or country can Bring me my heart again , I'll please him for his pain ; And by these marks I will you show That only I this heart ...
... heart is run astray After two eyes that passed this way . Oyes , oyes , oyes , If there be any man In town or country can Bring me my heart again , I'll please him for his pain ; And by these marks I will you show That only I this heart ...
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... heart to thee . A heart as soft , a heart as kind , A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find , That heart I'll give to thee . Bid that heart stay , and it will stay , To honour thy decree ; Or bid it languish ...
... heart to thee . A heart as soft , a heart as kind , A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find , That heart I'll give to thee . Bid that heart stay , and it will stay , To honour thy decree ; Or bid it languish ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxvii |
Acknowledgements | xlv |
ANNE HOWARD? 15571630 | 10 |
Copyright | |
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