Green thoughts, green shades : essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric /

Counter 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 num...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Post, Jonathan F. S., 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
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Available through UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Green Thoughts, Green Shades / Jonathan F.S. Post
  • 1. The Face of the Sonnet: Wyatt and Some Early Features of the Tradition / Peter Sacks
  • 2. Sidney and the Sestina / Anthony Hecht
  • 3. Naked Numbers: A Curve from Wyatt to Rochester / Heather McHugh
  • 4. Ben Jonson and the Loathed Word / Linda Gregerson
  • 5. Donne's Sovereignty / Calvin Bedient
  • 6. Anomaly, Conundrum, Thy-Will-Be-Done: On the Poetry of George Herbert / Carl Phillips
  • 7. Milton in the Modern: The Invention of Personality / William Logan
  • 8. Finding Anne Bradstreet / Eavan Boland
  • 9. Unordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of New Castle / Alice Fulton
  • 10. "How Coy a Figure": Marvelry / Stephen Yenser
  • 11. Saint John the Rake: Rochester's Poetry / Thom Gunn
  • 12. Edward Taylor: What Was He Up To? / Robert Hass.