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Seventeenth-Century Poetry An Annotated Anthology

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ISBN-10: 0631210660

ISBN-13: 9780631210665

Edition: 2000

Authors: Robert Cummings

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Robert Cummings's important new anthology offers in-depth annotation to a chronologically arranged selection from more than 50 poets writing between 1600 and 1700. The so-called canonical poets are generously represented (all of Milton's Comus, all of Marvell's Upon Appleton House, all of Denham's Coopers Hill) and sometimes with a novel emphasis on what are often taken as unanthologizable (non-lyric) kinds (more of Donne's epistolary and funerary poetry, selections from Drayton's Poly-Olbion, more of Waller). But the volume is notably catholic, including writers rarely anthologized (Wentworth Dillon) or only recently brought to critical notice (Mary Wroth, Anne Wharton) or discovered…    
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Book details

List price: $87.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 620
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.70" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Index of Topics
Alphabetical List of Authors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Goerg Chapman (1559-1634)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)
John Donne (1572-1631)
Be3n Jonson (1572-1637)
Martha Moulsworth (1578-1646)
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648)
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649)
Lady Mry Wroth (1587-c.1653)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Henry King (1592-1669)
Francis Quarles (1592-1633)
Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
Owen Felltham (1602-1668)
Thomas Randolph (1605-1654)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666)
John Milton (1608-1674)
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
Richard Crawshaw (1612-1649)
Samuel Butler (1613-1680)
John Cleveland (1613-1658)
Sir John Denham (1615-1669)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastel (1624-1674)
Charles Cotton (1630-1687)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Katherine Philips (1632-1664)
Thomas Traherne (1637-1674)
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1674-1680)
John Oldham (1653-1683)
Anne Wharton (1659-1685)
Index of Authors Cited
Index of Titles and First Lines