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9780582084377

English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

by Parfitt; George
  • ISBN13:

    9780582084377

  • ISBN10:

    0582084377

  • eBook ISBN(s):

    9781317896685

  • Additional ISBN(s):

    9781317896685

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1992-07-06
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Provides a comprehensive and entertaining account of the vitality and variety of achievement in seventeenth-century English poetry. Revised and up-dated throughout, Dr Parfitt has added new material on poets as varied as Marvell and Traherne. There is also a completely new chapter on women poets of the seventeenth century which considers the significant contributions of writers such as Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish. The proven quality and success of Dr Parfitt's survey makes this the essential companion for the teacher and student of seventeenth-century verse.

Table of Contents

The lyric: the significance of Donne and Jonson
Some versions of "Cavalier"
Restoration lyric
Religious lyric
The poetry of place: country, country-house, and erotic topography - to Andrew Marvell, Denham and Cotton - city and country
Poems of occasion: types of praise - Jonson to Cotton
Funereal verse for private figures - to Milton and Dryden
Funereal verse for public figures - to Cotton and Dryden
Types of praise - Daniel to Marvell
Satire: Cleveland, Rump and "Painter" poems
The restoration - Oldham and Rochester
The restoration - Butler and Dryden
The epic: history and epic - Drayton and Daniel
Towards epic - Fletchers, Davenant, and Cowley
Milton and epic
Poetry by women
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