The Early Seventeenth Century Verse Miscellany
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The Early Seventeenth Century Verse Miscellany

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The Early Seventeenth Century Verse Miscellany

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About this book

A deeply researched study of the social transmission and adaptation of poetry texts originating in pre-Civil War England, traced through the seventeenth century and sometimes beyond. Both manuscript and printed miscellanies are used, as well as other forms of publication, and case studies unusually span elite, popular and provincial audiences. As far as possible, texts are placed according to their original contexts and functions ("Directions") then followed through various answerings, parodies, co-optings and social, commercial and political adaptations ("Re-directions"). Case studies choose examples which have not been fully researched, so that a large amount of new material is presented from poets writing in a variety of environments. Results are sometimes startling and often amusing, giving a vivid sense of how poems were read and used in material exchange and providing a picture of literary activity far removed from what traditional, canonical literary history has often assumed.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of illustrations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Why “directed” and “re-directed” texts?
  10. 2 Songs: Performances, provocations, and opportunistic responses
  11. 3 William Browne writes death, and networks in Oxford
  12. 4 William Browne's later friendships and opportunities; re-directions in a new reign
  13. 5 The courtier poet Aurelian Townshend treads on eggshells; young Katherine Philips understands
  14. 6 The development of Strode's performative identity
  15. 7 The popular Strode: Three stories of direction and re-direction
  16. 8 Pastoral pictures, topographies, and working under Laud
  17. 9 Leonard Wheatcroft, Derbyshire artisan, church clerk, in dialogue with Thomas Randolph and the gentry
  18. 10 Final words: Challenges and delights
  19. Appendix 1: William Strode and Elizabeth Lucy/Ferrers/Cromwell – a quiet friendship to discover?
  20. Appendix 2: Merton College and the scribe of Folger MS V. a. 345
  21. Appendix 3: Harley MS 6931, Devon politics, and the socio-religious complexities of poetry collecting in 1630s Christ Church
  22. Index