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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Post, Jonathan F. S., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

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:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Green Thoughts, Green Shades

One. The Face of the Sonnet. Wyatt and Some Early Features of the Tradition

Two. Sidney and the Sestina

Three. Naked Numbers. A Curve from Wyatt to Rochester

Four. Ben Jonson and the Loathèd Word

Five. Donne's Sovereignty

Six. Anomaly, Conundrum, Thy-Will-Be-Done. On the Poetry of George Herbert

Seven. Milton in the Modern. The Invention of Personality

Eight. Finding Anne Bradstreet

Nine. Unordinary Passions. Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle

Ten. "How coy a Figure". Marvelry

Eleven. Saint John the Rake. Rochester's Poetry

Twelve. Edward Taylor. What Was He Up To?

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612359460

9780520935716

0520935713

9781282359468

1282359460

9781597346429

159734642X

OCLC:

475927209