The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse

ISBN-13: 9780199556298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 880 str.

Alastair Fowler

Opis

The seventeenth century was a period of remarkable achievement in the field of English poetry: it was the age of Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Jonson, Drayton, Herbert, Dryden, and Rochester among others. Alastair Fowler's celebrated anthology maps the terrain afresh, including innumerable and generous selections from all of the century's masterpieces as well as fascinating work by less familiar names. It strikes a balance between Metaphysical wit and intellect and Jonsonian simplicity, while also accommodating hitherto neglected popular verse. The result is a truer, more catholic representation of seventeenth-century verse than any previous anthology

Recenzje

well worth putting on your Christmas list, for the sake of the many fine and otherwise neglected poets he has chosen

O autorze

Alastair Fowler is Regius Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.