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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... shade divineth . Follow still , since so thy fates ordainèd . The sun must have his shade , Till both at once do fade , The sun still proud , the shadow still disdained . rest ire age end ( 1604 ) ΤΟ 20 ( 1601 ) FOLLOW your saint ...
... shade divineth . Follow still , since so thy fates ordainèd . The sun must have his shade , Till both at once do fade , The sun still proud , the shadow still disdained . rest ire age end ( 1604 ) ΤΟ 20 ( 1601 ) FOLLOW your saint ...
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... shades delight . The whole world , do but close your eye , Will be to you as black as I ; Or ope it and view how dark ... shade but I. ( 1656 ) 10 431 WILLIAM STRODE 1600-1643 Opposite to Melancholy RETURN , my joys , and hither bring A ...
... shades delight . The whole world , do but close your eye , Will be to you as black as I ; Or ope it and view how dark ... shade but I. ( 1656 ) 10 431 WILLIAM STRODE 1600-1643 Opposite to Melancholy RETURN , my joys , and hither bring A ...
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... shades where buried lovers lie . ENDYMION Olivia , ' tis no fault of love To lose ourselves in death ; but oh , I fear ... shade ] place of blessed afterlife ( Greek myth ) 10 20 486 ENDYMION From this vexed world when we shall both 390 ...
... shades where buried lovers lie . ENDYMION Olivia , ' tis no fault of love To lose ourselves in death ; but oh , I fear ... shade ] place of blessed afterlife ( Greek myth ) 10 20 486 ENDYMION From this vexed world when we shall both 390 ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxvii |
Acknowledgements | xlv |
ANNE HOWARD? 15571630 | 10 |
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