The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century VerseAlastair Fowler Oxford University Press, 1991 - 831 pages 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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... things long sought , age is a thing Which we are fifty years in compassing . If transitory things , which soon decay , Age must be loveliest at the latest day . But name not winter - faces , whose skin's slack ; Lank , as an unthrift's ...
... things long sought , age is a thing Which we are fifty years in compassing . If transitory things , which soon decay , Age must be loveliest at the latest day . But name not winter - faces , whose skin's slack ; Lank , as an unthrift's ...
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... things seem great Below ; but up unto the watch - tower get , And see all things despoiled of fallacies : Thou shalt not peep through lattices of eyes , Nor hear through labyrinths of ears , nor learn By circuit or collections to ...
... things seem great Below ; but up unto the watch - tower get , And see all things despoiled of fallacies : Thou shalt not peep through lattices of eyes , Nor hear through labyrinths of ears , nor learn By circuit or collections to ...
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... things to obtrude , And force some odd similitude . What is it then , which like the power divine We only can by negatives define ? 40 50 In a true piece of wit all things must be , Yet all things there agree ; As in the ark , joined ...
... things to obtrude , And force some odd similitude . What is it then , which like the power divine We only can by negatives define ? 40 50 In a true piece of wit all things must be , Yet all things there agree ; As in the ark , joined ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxvii |
Acknowledgements | xlv |
ANNE HOWARD? 15571630 | 10 |
Copyright | |
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