Green Thoughts, Green Shades
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Green Thoughts, Green Shades

Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Green Thoughts, Green Shades

Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric

About this book

Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the greatest lyric poets writing in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Written by people who spend much of their time thinking in verse and about verse, these original essays herald the return of the early modern lyric as crucial to understanding the present moment of poetry in the United States. This work provides fascinating insights into what today's poets find of special interest in their forebears. In addition, these discussions shed light on the contributors' own poetry and offer compelling clues to how the poetry of the past continues to inform that of the present.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION: GREEN THOUGHTS, GREEN SHADES
  5. ONE / THE FACE OF THE SONNET: WYATT AND SOME EARLY FEATURES OF THE TRADITION
  6. TWO / SIDNEY AND THE SESTINA
  7. THREE / NAKED NUMBERS: A CURVE FROM WYATT TO ROCHESTER
  8. FOUR / BEN JONSON AND THE LOATHƈD WORD
  9. FIVE / DONNE’S SOVEREIGNTY
  10. SIX / ANOMALY, CONUNDRUM, thy-will-be-done: ON THE POETRY OF GEORGE HERBERT
  11. SEVEN / MILTON IN THE MODERN: THE INVENTION OF PERSONALITY
  12. EIGHT / FINDING ANNE BRADSTREET
  13. NINE / UNORDINARY PASSIONS: MARGARET CAVENDISH, THE DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE
  14. TEN / ā€œHOW COY A FIGUREā€: MARVELRY
  15. ELEVEN / SAINT JOHN THE RAKE: ROCHESTER’S POETRY
  16. TWELVE / EDWARD TAYLOR: WHAT WAS HE UP TO?
  17. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  18. INDEX