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BEN JONSON agreed with Donne that a reform in lyric poetry was needed . In his dedication to Volpone he said : If my muses be true to me , I shall raise the despised head of poetry again and stripping her out of those rotten and base ...
BEN JONSON agreed with Donne that a reform in lyric poetry was needed . In his dedication to Volpone he said : If my muses be true to me , I shall raise the despised head of poetry again and stripping her out of those rotten and base ...
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The importance of these poets does not , however , consist solely in their relation to greater figures ; they have written much that is of moving beauty and independent value . The Fletcher family was attracted by either the religious ...
The importance of these poets does not , however , consist solely in their relation to greater figures ; they have written much that is of moving beauty and independent value . The Fletcher family was attracted by either the religious ...
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Eliot , T. S. Homage to John Dryden : Three Essays on the Poetry of the Seventeenth Century . London , 1924 . Gosse , Edmund . The Jacobean Poets . New York , 1894 . Seventeenth Century Studies . New York , 1897 . Greenlaw , Edwin .
Eliot , T. S. Homage to John Dryden : Three Essays on the Poetry of the Seventeenth Century . London , 1924 . Gosse , Edmund . The Jacobean Poets . New York , 1894 . Seventeenth Century Studies . New York , 1897 . Greenlaw , Edwin .
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Contents
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND | 7 |
JOHN DONNE | 21 |
BEN JONSON | 76 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century |
| Editor | Roberta Florence Brinkley |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Norton, 1942 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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