The wit of seventeenth-century poetry
"As the twelve original essays collected in this volume demonstrate, to study the wit of seventeenth-century poetry is necessarily to address concerns at the very heart of the period's shifting literary culture. It is a topic that raises persistent questions of thematics and authorial intent, even as it interrogates a wide spectrum of cultural practices. These essays by some of the most renowned scholars in seventeenth-century studies illuminate important authors and engage issues of politics and religion, of secular and sacred love, of literary theory and poetic technique, of gender relations and historical consciousness, of literary history and social change, as well as larger concerns of literary production and smaller ones of local effects."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1995
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©1995
Congress
viii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780826209856, 0826209858
31131804
"No more wit than a Christian?": the case of devotional poetry / Helen Wilcox
The Structure of wit: "Is all good structure in a winding stair?" / P.G. Stanwood and Lee M. Johnson
Women's wit / Erna Kelly
The Wit of circumcision, the circumcision of wit / Jim Ellis
Pygmalion's progress in the garden of love, or the wit's work is never Donne / Catherine Gimelli Martin
Wit and the power of Jonson's Epigrammes / Robert C. Evans
George Herbert's pastoral wit / M.C. Allen
Witty by design: Robert Herrick's Desperides / Roger B. Rollin
My curious hand or eye: the wit of Richard. Lovelace / Sharon Cadman Seelig
The "Truewit" of Crashaw's poetry / Lorraine Roberts
Marvell's mower: the wit of survival / W.A. Sessions
Religio laici?: Dryden's men of wit and the printed word / Katherine M. Quinsey
Essays presented at the 10th biennial Renaissance Conference held at the University of Michigan--Dearborn, October 16-17, 1992