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Contains literary biographies of the first generation of seventeenth-century nondramatic poets - born before the English defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and dead before the execution of King Charles I in 1649.
Contains literary biographies of the third generation of seventeenth-century nondramatic poets - born after the start of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 and before the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660.
The first comprehensive anthology of seventeenth-century English women writers
As the twelve original essays collected in this volume demonstrate, to study the wit of seventeenth-century poetry is necessarily to address concerns at the very heart of the period's shifting literary culture. It is a topic that raises persistent questions of thematics and authorial intent, even as it interrogates a wide spectrum of cultural practices. These essays by some of the most renowned scholars in seventeenth-century studies illuminate important authors and engage issues of politics and religion, of secular and sacred love, of literary theory and poetic technique, of gender relations and historical consciousness, of literary history and social change, as well as larger concerns of literary production and smaller ones of local effects. Collectively, they illustrate the vitality of the topic, both in its own right and as a means of understanding the complexity and range of seventeenth-century English poetry.