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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... unto myself I spake : ' Sweet god Cupid , where am I , That by pale Diana's light Such rich beauties do espy As harm our senses with delight ? Am I borne up to the skies ? See where Jove and Venus shine , Showing in her heavenly eyes ...
... unto myself I spake : ' Sweet god Cupid , where am I , That by pale Diana's light Such rich beauties do espy As harm our senses with delight ? Am I borne up to the skies ? See where Jove and Venus shine , Showing in her heavenly eyes ...
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... unto that height refine All love's delights as , while they do incline Unto no vice , they so become divine , We may as well attain your excellence , As without help of any outward sense Would make us grow a pure intelligence . And as a ...
... unto that height refine All love's delights as , while they do incline Unto no vice , they so become divine , We may as well attain your excellence , As without help of any outward sense Would make us grow a pure intelligence . And as a ...
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... unto mirth , To give himself his death , rebuking birth ? By sense and wit of creatures made king , By sense and wit to live their underling ? And , what is worst , have eaglet's eyes to see His own disgrace , and know an high degree Of ...
... unto mirth , To give himself his death , rebuking birth ? By sense and wit of creatures made king , By sense and wit to live their underling ? And , what is worst , have eaglet's eyes to see His own disgrace , and know an high degree Of ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxvii |
Acknowledgements | xlv |
ANNE HOWARD? 15571630 | 10 |
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