The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century VerseAlastair Fowler 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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... beauty's Silent music , either other Sweetly gracing . Lovely forms do flow From concent divinely framed ; Heaven is music , and thy beauty's Birth is heavenly . These dull notes we sing Discords need for helps to grace them ; Only ...
... beauty's Silent music , either other Sweetly gracing . Lovely forms do flow From concent divinely framed ; Heaven is music , and thy beauty's Birth is heavenly . These dull notes we sing Discords need for helps to grace them ; Only ...
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... Beauty ] IT was a beauty that I saw So pure , so perfect , as the frame Of all the universe was lame ; To that one figure , could I draw , Or give least line of it a law ! A skein of silk without a knot ! A fair march made without a ...
... Beauty ] IT was a beauty that I saw So pure , so perfect , as the frame Of all the universe was lame ; To that one figure , could I draw , Or give least line of it a law ! A skein of silk without a knot ! A fair march made without a ...
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... beauty's lightnings fired ; And yet a state so sweetly mixed With an attractive mildness , It may like virtue sit betwixt The extremes of pride and vileness . Then every eye that sees thy face Will in thy beauty glory , And every tongue ...
... beauty's lightnings fired ; And yet a state so sweetly mixed With an attractive mildness , It may like virtue sit betwixt The extremes of pride and vileness . Then every eye that sees thy face Will in thy beauty glory , And every tongue ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxvii |
Acknowledgements | xlv |
ANNE HOWARD? 15571630 | 10 |
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