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English poetry --- Renaissance --- History and criticism --- English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Renaissance - England

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English poetry --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- History and criticism --- Langland, William, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Spenser, Edmund, --- Gawain and the Grene Knight --- English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism --- English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Langland, William, - 1330?-1400? - Piers Plowman --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, - d. 1400. - Canterbury tales --- Spenser, Edmund, - 1552?-1599. - Faerie queene

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English poetry --- History and criticism --- Spenser, Edmund, --- Influence --- Great Britain --- History --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Spenser, Edmund, - 1552?-1599 - Influence --- Great Britain - History - Elizabeth, 1558-1603 --- Great Britain - History - James I, 1603-1625 --- Poésie anglaise --- 1500-1700 (moderne) --- Histoire et critique --- Spenser, Edmund, - 1552?-1599

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English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an exploration of their background. There are individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell. More general essays describe the political and religious context of the poetry, explore its gender politics, explain the material circumstances of its production and circulation, trace its larger role in the development of genre and tradition, and relate it to contemporary rhetorical expectation. Overall the Companion provides an indispensable guide to the texts and contexts of early-seventeenth-century English poetry.

English poetry --- -History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Poésie anglaise --- Histoire et critique --- Early modern, 1500-1700 --- Poetry --- English literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- History and criticism. --- English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism. --- POESIE ANGLAISE --- 1500-1700 (MODERNE) --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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English metaphysical poetry, from Donne to Marvell, is notoriously witty. In this 1992 book, A. J. Smith seeks the reason for the central importance of wit in the thinking of the metaphysical poets and argues that metaphysical wit is essentially different from other modes of wit current in Renaissance Europe. Formal theories and rhetorics of wit are considered both for their theoretical import and their appraisals of wit in practice. Prevailing fashions of witty invention are scrutinized in Italian, French and Spanish writings, so as to bring out the nature and effect of various forms of wit: conceited, hieroglyphic, transformational and others from which the metaphysical mode is distinguished. He locates the basis of Renaissance wit in the received conception of the created order and a theory of literary innovation inherent in Humanist belief, which led to novel couplings of time and eternity, body and soul, man and God.

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