This volume contains a very representative selection from the works of five leading seventeenth-century British poets: John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell. The general introduction reviews scholarship on the period since the beginning of the twentieth century and suggests a provocative and unusual way of approaching the works of these poets. The bibliography is full and up-to-date. The work of each poet is preceded by an introduction to his life and work, and the poems have been thoroughly annotated. The editor's notes and commentaries display high standards of scholarship and a knowledge of the latest critical thinking in the field. The book is likely to prove more useful--to the beginner as well as to the more advanced student--than any comparable anthology of seventeenth-century verse.
- ISBN10 0195628004
- ISBN13 9780195628005
- Publish Date 11 February 1993
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 August 2021
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Edition Annotated edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 310
- Language English