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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... nature in general . For a century of discoveries , both from exploration and from quasi - experimental research , had aroused keen interest in astronomy , geography , physics , and natural history , all of which were pursued with a new ...
... nature in general . For a century of discoveries , both from exploration and from quasi - experimental research , had aroused keen interest in astronomy , geography , physics , and natural history , all of which were pursued with a new ...
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... nature's family . Yet must I not give nature all : thy art , My gentle Shakespeare , must enjoy a part . For though the poet's matter nature be , His art doth give the fashion . And that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat ...
... nature's family . Yet must I not give nature all : thy art , My gentle Shakespeare , must enjoy a part . For though the poet's matter nature be , His art doth give the fashion . And that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat ...
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... Nature self's thy Ganymede . Thou dost drink and dance and sing , Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields ... Nature self's ] Nature itself is Ganymede ] ( cupbearer of the gods ) ( ancient mythology ) hinds ] rustics 622 Ode ...
... Nature self's thy Ganymede . Thou dost drink and dance and sing , Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields ... Nature self's ] Nature itself is Ganymede ] ( cupbearer of the gods ) ( ancient mythology ) hinds ] rustics 622 Ode ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxvii |
Acknowledgements | xlv |
ANNE HOWARD? 15571630 | 10 |
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