The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-955629-8
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 880 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 201 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fowler, Alastair

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

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