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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... Prove we not both confusion's heirs , and mothers ? Far unlike Adam , putting civil names Upon those errors which the whole world blames . For if power ravine more than is her own , ' People , ' we say , ' are checkers to a throne ...
... Prove we not both confusion's heirs , and mothers ? Far unlike Adam , putting civil names Upon those errors which the whole world blames . For if power ravine more than is her own , ' People , ' we say , ' are checkers to a throne ...
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... prove ? Reason better can digest Earnest heat , than love in jest . Wherefore do your smiling eyes Help your tongue ... prove , Prove true , say you cannot love . [ Song ] ( 1844 wr . by 1633 ) WHAT means this strangeness now of late ...
... prove ? Reason better can digest Earnest heat , than love in jest . Wherefore do your smiling eyes Help your tongue ... prove , Prove true , say you cannot love . [ Song ] ( 1844 wr . by 1633 ) WHAT means this strangeness now of late ...
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... prove That man's most noble passion is to love . 20 339 30 ( 1646 ) 731 An Epicurean Ode SINCE that this thing we call the world By chance on atoms is begot , Which though in daily motions hurled Yet weary not , How doth it prove Thou ...
... prove That man's most noble passion is to love . 20 339 30 ( 1646 ) 731 An Epicurean Ode SINCE that this thing we call the world By chance on atoms is begot , Which though in daily motions hurled Yet weary not , How doth it prove Thou ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxvii |
Acknowledgements | xlv |
ANNE HOWARD? 15571630 | 10 |
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