Seventeenth-century British poetry, 1603-1660 : Authoritative texts, criticism / edited by John P. Rumrich and Gregory Chaplin.

First edition.

New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, ©2006.

xxii, 999 pages ; 24 cm.

Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, to the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition. A time of political and social unrest in England, this period produced some of the greatest poetry in the English language. This volume includes the major poets - John Donne, Ben Jonson, George Herbert, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell - the major women writers of the era - Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips - and nineteen other poets essential to an understanding of English literature in the seventeenth century. The poems are accompanied by headnotes and explanatory annotations.

English

September 15, 2023

Includes bibliographical references (pages 971-979) and index.