Book description
CONTENTS:
1. The Love Poetry of John Donne: Pedantique Weedes or Fresh Invention?
2. The Failure of Love: Love Lyrics after Donne
3. The Verse Epistle
4. The Action of the Self: Devotional Poetry in the Seventeenth Century
5. Something Understood: The Nature of Herbert’s Wit
6. The Apotheosis of Faust: Poetry and New Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
7. Andrew Marvell: Private Taste and Public Judgement
8. Satire from Donne to Marvell
9. The Social Situation of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
10. Metaphysical Poetry and the European Context
