Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry

by Ryan Netzley

Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivity

Early modern poems of praise typically insist that they do not have a purpose or enact real labor beyond their effortless listing of laudable qualities. And yet the poets discussed in this study, including Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, Anne Bradstreet, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton, hint at an alternative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810146703
• ISBN13: 9780810146709
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.