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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... rich eyes and breast Gilt the West Indies , and perfúmed the East ; Whose having breathed in this world did bestow Spice on those isles , and bade them still smell so ; And that rich Indie which doth gold inter Is but as single money ...
... rich eyes and breast Gilt the West Indies , and perfúmed the East ; Whose having breathed in this world did bestow Spice on those isles , and bade them still smell so ; And that rich Indie which doth gold inter Is but as single money ...
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... Rich Man Despising Poverty If well thou viewst us with no squinted eye , No partial judgement , thou wilt quickly rate Thy wealth no richer than my poverty , My want no poorer than thy rich estate , Our ends and births alike : in this ...
... Rich Man Despising Poverty If well thou viewst us with no squinted eye , No partial judgement , thou wilt quickly rate Thy wealth no richer than my poverty , My want no poorer than thy rich estate , Our ends and births alike : in this ...
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... rich , more rich , than you . While you a spot of Earth possess with care Below the notice of the geographer , I by the freedom of my soul Possess , nay more , enjoy the whole : To the universe a claim I lay . Your writings show ...
... rich , more rich , than you . While you a spot of Earth possess with care Below the notice of the geographer , I by the freedom of my soul Possess , nay more , enjoy the whole : To the universe a claim I lay . Your writings show ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxvii |
Acknowledgements | xlv |
ANNE HOWARD? 15571630 | 10 |
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