The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century VerseAlastair Fowler Oxford University Press, 1991 - 831 pages 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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... sphere , and then , in this , The intelligence that moves , devotion is ; And as the other spheres , by being grown Subject to foreign motions , lose their own , And being by others hurried every day , Scarce in a year their natural ...
... sphere , and then , in this , The intelligence that moves , devotion is ; And as the other spheres , by being grown Subject to foreign motions , lose their own , And being by others hurried every day , Scarce in a year their natural ...
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... sphere . THE STAND Go now , and tell out days summed up with fears ; And make them years ; Produce thy mass of miseries on the stage , To swell thine age ; Repeat of things a throng , To show thou hast been long , Not lived ; for life ...
... sphere . THE STAND Go now , and tell out days summed up with fears ; And make them years ; Produce thy mass of miseries on the stage , To swell thine age ; Repeat of things a throng , To show thou hast been long , Not lived ; for life ...
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... sphere , and did decline His unshorn head to the Earth ; his radiant shine Peeped from the windores of the east , to breathe New life on people in the shades of death . Dear sun , since from thy sphere thou once wert sent , Here is a ...
... sphere , and did decline His unshorn head to the Earth ; his radiant shine Peeped from the windores of the east , to breathe New life on people in the shades of death . Dear sun , since from thy sphere thou once wert sent , Here is a ...
Contents
Introduction | xxxvii |
Acknowledgements | xlv |
ANNE HOWARD? 15571630 | 10 |
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