English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

Abraham Cowley Absalom and Achitophel achievement Achitophel Appleton House awareness Ben Jonson Butler Carew Charles Christ Civil classical Cleveland concerned context contrast Cooper's Hill Cotton country house country-house poems court courtly Cowley Cowley's Crashaw critical Cromwell Davenant death Denham Donne Donne's Drayton Dryden edited Elizabethan England English epic Epigrams Epistle feeling Fletcher Gondibert Herbert heroic Herrick HISTORICAL/CULTURAL EVENTS Horatian Hudibras idea ideal individual Jacobean James John John Donne Jonson King King's literary Literature London Lord Lovelace Lycidas MacFlecknoe Marvell Marvell's Milton mock-heroic monarch offers Oldham Oxford Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament pastoral Penshurst Phineas Fletcher poem's poet poet-figure poet's poetic poetry political Poly-Olbion praise present reader religious Rochester Rochester's royalist Samson Samson Agonistes Satan satire satirist secular seems seen sense seventeenth century social society Song Spenser stanza stress style Suckling suggests thee theme thou tradition Vaughan verse Waller writing