1st Edition
The Early Seventeenth Century Verse Miscellany Directions and Re-Directions
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Chapter 1: Why “Directed” and “Re-directed” Texts?
Chapter 2: Songs: performances, provocations, and opportunistic responses
Chapter 3: William Browne writes death, and networks in Oxford
Chapter 4: William Browne’s later friendships and opportunities; redirections in a new reign
Chapter 5: The courtier poet Aurelian Townshend treads on eggshells; young Katherine Philips understands
Chapter 6: The development of Strode’s performative identity
Chapter 7: The popular Strode: three stories of direction and re-direction
Chapter 8: Pastoral pictures, topographies, and working under Laud
Chapter 9: Leonard Wheatcroft, Derbyshire artisan, church clerk, in dialogue with Thomas Randolph and the gentry
Chapter 10: Final words: challenges and delights
Appendix 1: William Strode and Elizabeth Lucy/Ferrers/Cromwell – a quiet friendship to discover?
Appendix 2: Merton College and the scribe of Folger MS V.a.345
Appendix 3: Harley MS 6931, Devon politics, and the socio-religious complexities of poetry collecting in 1630s Christ Church
Index
Biography
Cedric C. Brown, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Reading, subsequently Professorial Research Consultant at the University of Plymouth, was formerly a well-known Miltonist and the founder Editor of the very long-running interdisciplinary book series, Early Modern Literature in History, which has now passed 100 titles. With regard to the present project, he also published frequently on occasional poetry of all kinds. There are also connections with his Friendship and its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century (2016).
