English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

achievement awareness becomes beginning Carew Charles Civil classical clear clearly Cleveland concerned context contrast course court courtly Cowley create critical death define detail Donne Donne's Drayton Dryden edited Elizabethan England English epic Epigrams example experience fact feeling figure finally forms gives Herbert heroic Hill human idea ideal important indicates individual interest involves issues James John Jonson King lines literary Literature lived London Lord Lost lyric manner Marvell material matter means Milton nature offers Oxford Paradise Parliament particular pastoral perhaps period person poem poet poetry political possible praise present provides question reader reason relation religious representative response Restoration Satan satire seems seen sense seventeenth century shows social society stress style suggests takes theme things tradition values Vaughan verse Waller whole writing