Green thoughts, green shades : essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric / edited by Jonathan F.S. Post.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Post, Jonathan F. S., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 300 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]

Summary:

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 United States. This work provides fascinating insights into what today's poets find of special interest in their forebears. In addition, these discussions shed light on the contributors' own poetry and offer compelling clues to how the poetry of the past continues to inform that of the present.

Contents:

The face of the sonnet: Wyatt and some early features of the tradition / Peter Sacks

Sidney and the sestina / Anthony Hecht

Naked numbers: a curve from Wyatt to Rochester / Heather McHugh

Ben Jonson and the loathèd word / Linda Gregerson

Donne's sovereignty / Calvin Bedient

Anomaly, conundrum, Thy-will-be-done: on the poetry of George Herbert / Carl Phillips

Milton in the modern: the invention of personality / William Logan

Finding Anne Bradstreet / Eavan Boland

Unordinary passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle / Alice Fulton

"How coy a figure": Marvelry / Stephen Yenser

Saint John the rake: Rochester's poetry / Thom Gunn

Edward Taylor: what was he up to? / Robert Hass.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520214552

0520227522

OCLC:

47716509