258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1985, Seventeenth-Century Poetry considers the way the poetry of the major seventeenth-century writers functioned in a social context: how it grew out of the poets’ social circumstances and ambitions, enhance their relationships with friends and patrons, how it proposed ideals of conduct and the good life. In the case of religious verse, the poetry is read within its... Read more
Introduction A Note on the Texts 1. Ben Johnson: Britain’s Roman Poet 2. John Donne: Patronage, Friendship and Love 3. George Herbert and the Temple of Anglicanism 4. Henry Vaughan: Social Darkness, Spiritual Light 5. Thomas Traherne: The Accessible Eden 6. The Devotional Adventures of Richard Crashaw 7. Robert Herrick and the Ceremonies of Innocence 8. The Caroline Milton 9. Andrew Marvell and Providential History Recommended Reading Index
Biography
Professor Graham Parry is with Department of English and Related Literature, University of York.
