Book description
CONTENTS:
Metaphysical Poetry
The Metaphysical Poets
The Line of Wit
The Metaphysical Poets
A Critique of Some Modern Theories of Metaphysical Poetry
Donne and Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Donne and Love Poetry in the Seventeenth Century
The Love Poetry of John Donne: A Reply to Mr. C. S. Lewis
The Convention of The Extasie
John Donne in Meditation: The Anniversaries
Ben Jonson’s Lyric Poetry
The Tone of Ben Jonson’s Poetry
The Poem as Hieroglyph
Herbert’s Craftsmanship
Symbolism in Crashaw
Taste and Bad Taste in Metaphysical Poetry: Richard Crashaw and Dylan Thomas
Richard Lovelace: "The Grasse-Hopper"
The Argument of Marvell’s "Garden"
Marvell’s "Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun": Sources versus Meaning
Marvell’s "Horatian Ode" (by Cleanth Brooks)
Marvell’s "Horatian Ode" (by Douglas Bush)
A Note on the Limits of "History" and the Limits of "Criticism"
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and the Right Veine of Satire
An Allusion to Europe: Dryden and Tradition
John Dryden: The Lyric Poet
On the Death of Mrs. Killigrew: The Perfecting of a Genre
Mock-Heroic: MacFlecknoe
