1st Edition

Poets of the Early Seventeenth Century

Edited By Bernard Davis, Elizabeth Davis Copyright 1967
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1967, Poets of the Early Seventeenth Century is a representative selection of shorter poems written during the first half of the seventeenth century by principal poets of this period. Of these poets, only Ben Jonson in the strict sense was a professional author, writing as a means of livelihood. Milton and probably Browne at this stage of their careers, were independent. The... Read more

Introduction 1. Ben Jonson 2. William Browne 3. Robert Herrick 4. George Herbert 5. Thomas Carew 6. John Milton 7. Sir John Suckling 8. Richard Crashaw 9. Richard Lovelace 10. Henry Vaughan 11. Andrew Marvell Notes to the Poems Further Reading Index of First Lines

Biography

Bernard Davis & Elizabeth Davis