The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook

The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook
Author: Robert C. Evans
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2010-02-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0826498507

One-stop resource offering complete textbook for courses in seventeenth-century literature - progressing from introductory topics through to overviews of current research.

Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry

Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry
Author: Arthur Terry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1993-11-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521444217

The first comprehensive study in English of one of the most important bodies of verse in European literature.

Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts

Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
Author: Laura Estill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2015-01-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611495156

Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.

Milton Among the Philosophers

Milton Among the Philosophers
Author: Stephen M. Fallon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780801473678

While Johnson charged that Milton "unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy," Stephen M. Fallon argues that the relationship between Milton's philosophy and the poetry of Paradise Lost is a happy one. The author examines Milton's thought in light of the competing philosophical systems that filled the vacuum left by the repudiation of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. In what has become the classic account of Milton's animist materialism, Fallon revises our understanding of Milton's philosophical sophistication. The book offers a new interpretation of the War in Heaven in Paradise Lost as a clash of metaphysical systems, with free will hanging in the balance.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1322
Release: 1974-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521200042

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature

Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature
Author: Philip Major
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000712133

Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist Oxford before seeing long service as secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria, and as a Crown agent, on the continent. In the mid-1650s he returned to England, was imprisoned and made an accommodation with the Cromwellian regime. This volume of essays provides the modern critical attention Cowley’s life and writings merit.