Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages John Donne - Ben Jonson - George Herbert - Thomas Carew - Edmund Waller - Richard Crashaw - Andrew Marvell - Henry Vaughan - John Dryden. |
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Page 79
... wrote too many sonnets and wrote them too easily . Jonson's foolish Matheo in Every Man in His Humour would , when melancholy , " write you your halfe score or your dozen of sonnets at a sitting . " Both Jonson and Donne seem to have ...
... wrote too many sonnets and wrote them too easily . Jonson's foolish Matheo in Every Man in His Humour would , when melancholy , " write you your halfe score or your dozen of sonnets at a sitting . " Both Jonson and Donne seem to have ...
Page 80
... wrote what he most valued for an audience fit though few . Spenser , one might almost say , wrote for all who cared for poetry at all ; both Jonson and Donne wrote very emphatically for those who knew what was what . There is some ...
... wrote what he most valued for an audience fit though few . Spenser , one might almost say , wrote for all who cared for poetry at all ; both Jonson and Donne wrote very emphatically for those who knew what was what . There is some ...
Page 81
... wrote much poetry that was satirical and realistic . Both - a very notable characteristic of the typical seventeenth - century as distinguished from the typical Elizabethan lyrist - stamped an image of themselves upon nearly all they wrote ...
... wrote much poetry that was satirical and realistic . Both - a very notable characteristic of the typical seventeenth - century as distinguished from the typical Elizabethan lyrist - stamped an image of themselves upon nearly all they wrote ...
Contents
H J C GRIERSON Metaphysical Poetry | 3 |
T S ELIOT The Metaphysical Poets | 22 |
F R LEAVIS The Line of Wit | 31 |
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