This text sets out to reassess lyric poetry of the early-17th century. The study is directed at both beginning and more advanced students of literature, and responds to scholarly inquiries pursued of late in relation to specific poets. The author seeks to assimilate many of the post-new critical theoretical concerns with readings of the major and minor, male and female authors of the period. Donne, Jonson, the Spenserians, Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Vaughan, as well as many non-canonical and women poets, all receive detailed analysis. In widening the scope of critical commentary, this book...

Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the greatest lyric poets writing in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Written by people who spend much of their time thinking in verse and about verse, these original essays herald the return of the early modern lyric as crucial to understanding the present moment of poetry in...

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains 38 original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume understands poetry to be not just a formal category designating a particular literary genre but to be inclusive of the dramatic verse as well and of Shakespeare's influence as a poet on later generations of writers in English and beyond. Focusing on a broad set of interpretive concerns, the volume tackles...

A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht uses Hecht's own correspondence to present the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004).