Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660: A Norton Critical Edition

Bys: Rumrich, John P. and Chaplin, Gregory

Book Overview

A time of political and social unrest in England, this period produced some of the greatest poetry in English. This volume includes the major poets--John Donne, Ben Jonson, George Herbert, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell--the major women writers of the era--Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips--and nineteen other poets essential to an understanding of English literature in the seventeenth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393979989
• ISBN13: 9780393979985
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 1024 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"