Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660Offers new interpretations of poems by Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace, and looks at five themes in seventeenth century English poetry. |
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Page 102
... Epigrams he had much evidence to show that this was no Augustus Caesar . Indeed , the placing of the epigram fourth in the book , after epigrams addressed " To the Reader , " " To my Book , ” and “ To my Bookseller , " demonstrates well ...
... Epigrams he had much evidence to show that this was no Augustus Caesar . Indeed , the placing of the epigram fourth in the book , after epigrams addressed " To the Reader , " " To my Book , ” and “ To my Bookseller , " demonstrates well ...
Page 103
... epigram which tersely expresses the corruption of the court over which that king presides : 7 On a Robbery Ridway robbed Duncote of three hundred pound , Ridway was ta'en , arraigned , condemned to die ; But , for this money was a ...
... epigram which tersely expresses the corruption of the court over which that king presides : 7 On a Robbery Ridway robbed Duncote of three hundred pound , Ridway was ta'en , arraigned , condemned to die ; But , for this money was a ...
Page 390
... Epigram to King Charles , for a £ 100 he sent me in my sickness , " 114-115 ; “ An Epigram to Our Great and Good King Charles on His Anniversary Day , ” 115 ; “ An Epistle to a Friend to Persuade Him to the Wars , " 371n9 ; " An Epistle ...
... Epigram to King Charles , for a £ 100 he sent me in my sickness , " 114-115 ; “ An Epigram to Our Great and Good King Charles on His Anniversary Day , ” 115 ; “ An Epistle to a Friend to Persuade Him to the Wars , " 371n9 ; " An Epistle ...
Contents
Thresholds I | 1 |
Praising and Blaming | 15 |
Strafford and Buckingham | 41 |
Copyright | |
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Andrew Marvell Appleton House ballad Ben Jonson blush breath Buckingham Carew celebration century ceremony Charles Charles's church close common contrast Corbett court Davenant dead death Donne's dost doth Duke Earl of Strafford Edmund Waller Edward King English epigram eyes fair fate fear Felton's give hair hath heart heaven Henry Vaughan Herbert Herrick Herrick's poem Hesperides Ibid ideal Inigo Jones John John Milton Jonson Julia king king's lady lines live look Lovelace Lovelace's Lycidas lyric Marvell's masques Milton muse never offer Paradise Lost peace piece play poem's poet poet's Poetaster poetry praise princes proverb Puritan queen reader restoration rhyme Richard Lovelace rose royal Sciography seas sense seventeenth seventeenth-century sexual Shakespeare ship snake song sonnet soul stanza Strafford sweet thee things thou tion turns unto verse virgin vision Waller's wind word write wrote