A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY

BRITISH POETRY:

1603-1660

AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS

CRITICISM

Edited by

JOHN P. RUMRICH

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

andGREGORY CHAPLIN

BRIDGEWATER STATE COLLEGE

W. W. NORTON & COMPANY • New York • London

Contents

Preface xxi

The Texts of the PoemsAemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) 3

From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) 5To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 5To All Virtuous Ladies in General 9From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 11The Description of Cookham 14

John Donne(1572-1631) 21From Poems (1633) 23

From Songs and Sonnets 23The Good-Morrow 23Song ["Go and catch a falling star"] 23The Undertaking 24The Sun Rising 25The Indifferent 26The Canonization 26Air and Angels 28The Anniversary 29Twickenham Garden . 29Confined Love 30A Valediction: Of Weeping 31Love's Alchemy 32The Flea 33A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day 33The Bait 35The Apparition 36A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 36The Ecstasy 37The Funeral 40The Blossom 40The Relic 41The Damp 42Farewell to Love 43A Lecture upon the Shadow 44

From Elegies 45Elegy 6. Nature's Lay Idiot 45Elegy 8. To His Mistress Going to Bed 46Elegy 13. The Autumnal 47Elegy 14. Love's Progress 49Sappho to Philaenis 51

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From Satires 53Satire 3 ["Kind pity chokes my spleen"] 53

Verse Letters 56The Storm 56The Calm 58To Sir Henry Wotton ["Sir, more than kisses"] 59To the Countess of Bedford ["Madam, You have refined me"] 61

From An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary 63Divine Poems 69

Holy Sonnets 691 ["As due by many titles I resign"] 692 ["Oh my black soul!"] 703 ["This is my play's last scene"] 704 ["At the round earth's imagined corners"] 715 ["If poisonous minerals"] 716 ["Death be not proud"] 727 ["Spit in my face you Jews"] 728 ["Why are we by all creatures waited on?"] 739 ["What if this present were the world's last night?"] 7310 ["Batter my heart"] 7317 ["Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt"] 7418 ["Show me, dear Christ"] 7419 ["Oh, to vex me"] 75

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward 75A Hymn to Christ, at the Author's Last Going into Germany 77Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness 78A Hymn to God the Father 79

BenJonson(1572-1637) 81From The Works of Benjamin Jonson (1616) 83

From Epigrams 83I: To the Reader 83II: To My Book 83IV: To King James 83IX: To All, To Whom I Write 84XI: On Something that Walks Somewhere 84XIV: To William Camden 84XVIII: To My Mere English Censurer 85XXII: On My First Daughter 85XLV: On My First Son 85LIX: On Spies 86LXIX: To Pertinax Cob 86LXXVI: On Lucy, Countess of Bedford 86LXXIX: To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland 87LXXXIII: To a Friend 87XCI: To Sir Horace Vere 87XCIV: To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne's

Satires 88XCVI: To John Donne 88CI: Inviting a Friend to Supper 89CXX: Epitaph on S. P., a Child of Q. El. Chapel 90

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CXXVIII: To William Roe 91CXXXIII: On the Famous Voyage 91

The Forest 97I: Why I Write Not of Love 97II: To Penshurst 97III: To Sir Robert Wroth 100IV: To the World: A Farewell for a Gentlewoman, Virtuous

and Noble 103V: Song: To Celia 104VI: To the Same 105VII: Song: That Women Are but Men's Shadows 105VIII: To Sickness 106IX: Song: To Celia 107X: ["And must I sing? What subject shall I choose?"] 108XI: Epode 109XII: Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland 112XIII: Epistle to Katharine, Lady Aubigny 115XIV: Ode to Sir William Sydney, on His Birthday 118XV: To Heaven 119

From The Works of Benjamin Jonson (1640—1641) 120From Underwood 120

A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior 120A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces 121

1. His Excuse for Loving 1212. How He Saw Her 1223. What He Suffered 1224. Her Triumph 123

5. His Discourse with Cupid 1246. Claiming a Second Kiss by Desert 1257. Begging Another, on Color of Mending the Former 1268. Urging Her of a Promise 1269. Her Man Described by Her Own Dictamen 12710. Another Lady's Exception Present at the Hearing 128

The Musical Strife, in a Pastoral Dialogue 129In the Person of Womankind: A Song Apologetic 130Another, in Defense of Their Inconstancy: A Song 130A Nymph's Passion 131The Hourglass 132My Picture Left in Scotland 132The Dream 133An Epistle to Master John Selden 133An Ode to Himself ["Where dost thou careless lie"] 136A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth 137An Epistle Answering to One That Asked to Be Sealed of the

Tribe of Ben 137

An Epigram to the Household 139To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair,

Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison 140Epithalamion, or a Song Celebrating the Nuptials of that

Noble Gentleman, Mr. Jerome Weston, Son and Heir of

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the Lord Weston, Lord High Treasurer of England, withthe Lady Frances Stuart, Daughter of Esme Duke ofLenox, Deceased, and Sister of the Surviving Duke of theSame Name 144

From Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, andTragedies (1623) 149To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William

Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us 149From Ben Jonson's Execration Against Vulcan (1640) 151

Ode to Himself ["Come leave the loathed stage"] 151Songs from the Plays and Masques 153

From The Works (1616) 153"Slow, slow, fresh fount" 153"If I freely may discover" 153"Swell me a bowl with lusty wine" 154"Still to be neat, still to be dressed" 154

From The Works (1640-1641) 155"Though I am young, and cannot tell" 155

Richard Corbett (1582-1635) 157From Certain Elegant Poems (1647) 159

A Proper New Ballad, Intituled the Fairies' Farewell . . . 159An Elegy upon the Death of His Own Father 161

From Poetica Stromata (1648) 162Upon Fairford Windows 162The Distracted Puritan 163

Lady Mary Wroth (1587?-1651?) 167From Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) 169

1 ["When night's black mantle could most darkness prove"] 1697 Song ["The spring now come at last"] 16916 ["Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers"] 17024 ["When last I saw thee, I did not thee see"] 17125 ["Like to the Indians scorched with the sun"] 17126 ["When everyone to pleasing pastime hies"] 17239 ["Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast"] 17240 ["False hope, which feeds but to destroy and spill"] 17268 ["My pain, still smothered in my grieved breast"] 17374 Song ["Love, a child, is ever crying"] 17377 ["In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?"] 17490 ["Except my heart, which you bestowed before"] 17494 Song ["Lovers learn to speak but truth"] 17599 ["Like to huge clouds of smoke which well may hide"] 176103 ["My Muse, now happy, lay thyself to rest"] 176

From The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621) 177Song ["Love, what art thou? A vain thought"] 177

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) 179From Hesperides (1648) 181

The Argument of His Book 181When He Would Have His Verses Read 181To Perilla 182No Loathsomeness in Love 182Upon the Loss of His Mistresses 183

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The Vine 183Discontents in Devon 184Cherry-Ripe 184His Request to Julia 184Dreams 184To the King, Upon His Coming with His Army into the West 185

Delight in Disorder 185Dean-bourn, a Rude River in Devon, By Which Sometimes

He Lived 185The Definition of Beauty 186To Anthea Lying in Bed 186Upon Scobble. Epigram 186The Hourglass 187His Farewell to Sack 187To Dianeme ["Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes"] 188Julia's Petticoat 189

Corinna's Going A-Maying 189How Lilies Came White 191Upon Some Women 191The Welcome to Sack 192To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses 194To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 195His Poetry His Pillar 196To the Rose. Song 197The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home: To the Right Honorable

Mildmay, Earl of Westmorland 197How Roses Came Red ["Roses at first were white"] 198

How Violets Came Blue 199A Nuptial Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipsby Crew and His

Lady 199Oberon's Feast 203Upon a Child That Died 205To Daffodils 205Upon Master Ben Jonson: Epigram 205Upon Electra 206Upon Parson Beanes 206To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon 206To the Right Honorable Mildmay, Earl of Westmorland 207To Blossoms 207Kissing and Bussing 208Art above Nature: To Julia 208His Prayer to Ben Jonson 208The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad 209The Night-Piece, To Julia 209The Hag 210The Country Life, To the Honored Mr. Endymion Porter,

Groom of the Bedchamber to His Majesty 210The Maypole 212His Return to London 212His Grange, or Private Wealth 213Upon Julia's Clothes 214

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Upon Prue, His MaidCeremonies for ChristmasPoetry Perpetuates the PoetKissesThe Amber BeadUpon Love ["Love brought me to a silent grove"]CharmsAnotherAnother to Bring in the WitchAnother Charm for StablesCeremonies for Candlemas EveUpon Ben JonsonAn Ode for HimTo the King, Upon His Welcome to Hampton CourtOn HimselfUpon His Spaniel TracyThe Pillar of Fame"To his book's end this last line he'd have placed"

From His Noble Numbers (1647)His Prayer for AbsolutionTo Find GodWhat God IsCalling, and CorrectingUpon TimeTo His Savior, a Child; A Present by a ChildTo His ConscienceHis CreedAnother Grace for a ChildThe BellmanThe White Island, or Place of the Blest

George Herbert (1593-1633)From The Temple (1633)

The AltarThe SacrificeThe ThanksgivingThe ReprisalThe AgonyThe SinnerGood FridayThe PassionRedemptionSepulcherEaster [I]Easter [II]Easter-wings [I]Easter-wings [II]H. Baptism [I]H. Baptism [II]Sin [I]AfHiction [I]Prayer [I]

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The H. Communion 243Prayer [II] 244Love I 245[Love II] 245The Temper [I] 245The Temper [II] 246

Jordan [I] 247Employment [I] 247The H. Scriptures I 248[The H. Scriptures II] 249Whitsunday 249Grace 250Church-monuments 251Church-music 251Church-lock and Key 252The Windows 252

The Quiddity 252Sunday 253Employment [II] 254

Denial 255Christmas 256The World 257Vanity [I] 258Virtue 258The Pearl. Matthew 13:45 259Affliction [IV] 260Man 261Life 262Mortification 263

Jordan [II] 264Obedience 264The British Church 266The Quip 267Dullness 267Sin's Round 268Peace 269

The Bunch of Grapes 270The Storm 271Paradise 271The Size 272Artillery 273The Pilgrimage 274The Bag 275The Collar 276Joseph's Coat 277The Pulley 277The Search 278The Flower 280The Son 281A True Hymn 281

Bitter-sweet 282

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Mary Magdalene 282Aaron 283The Forerunners 284Discipline 285The Banquet 286The Elixir 287A Wreath 288Death 288Doomsday 289Judgment 290Heaven 290Love [III] 291

Thomas Carew (1594?-1640) 293

From Poems (1640) 295

The Spring 295

A Divine Mistress 295

Song: Mediocrity in Love Rejected 296

To My Mistress Sitting by a River's Side: An Eddy 296

Song: To My Inconstant Mistress 297

Song: Persuasions to Enjoy 297

Ingrateful Beauty Threatened 298

Disdain Returned 298

To My Mistress in Absence 299

Song: Eternity of Love Protested 300

To Saxham 300

Upon a Ribbon 302

A Rapture 302

Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers 306

Another ["The purest soul that e'er was sent"] 307

Another ["This little vault, this narrow room"] 307

To Ben Jonson: Upon Occasion of His Ode of Defiance

Annexed to His Play of The New Inn 307

An Elegy upon the Death of Dr. Donne, Dean of Paul's 309

In Answer of an Elegiacal Letter, upon the Death of the King

of Sweden, from Aurelian Townshend, Inviting Me to

Write on That Subject 311

To a Lady That Desired I Would Love Her 314

To My Friend G. N., from Wrest 315

A Song ["Ask me no more where Jove bestows"] 317

James Shirley (1596-1666) 319

From Poems (1646) 321

Cupid's Call 321

To Odelia 321

Love for Enjoying 322

To the Excellent Pattern of Beauty and Virtue, Lady

Elizabeth, Countess of Ormonde 323

To a Lady upon a Looking-Glass Sent 324

Two Gentlemen That Broke Their Promise of a Meeting,

Made When They Drank Claret 324

The Garden 325

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From The Contention ofAjax and Ulysses for the Armor of Achilles(1659) 326

Dirge 326Mildmay Fane (1600-1666) 327

From Otia Sacra (1648) 329My Country Audit 329My Observation at Sea 329A Dedication of My First Son 331Upon the Times 332My Close-Committee 332In Praise of Fidelia 333To Retiredness 334

Thomas Randolph (1605-1635) 337From Poems, with The Muses' Looking-Glass and Amyntas (1638) 339

A Gratulatory to Mr. Ben Jonson for His Adopting of Him ToBe His Son 339

Upon the Loss of His Little Finger 340An Elegy 341An Ode to Mr. Anthony Stafford to Hasten Him into the

Country 342On the Death of a Nightingale 344A Mask for Lydia 344Upon Love Fondly Refused for Conscience's Sake 346

William Habington (1605-1654) 349From Castara (1640) 351

To Roses in the Bosom of Castara 351To Castara ["Do not their profane orgies hear"] 351To a Wanton 352To the World. The Perfection of Love 353To a Friend, Inviting Him to a Meeting upon Promise 354To Castara, upon Beauty 355Against Them Who Lay Unchastity to the Sex of Women 355To Castara, upon an Embrace 356Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam. David 356

Edmund Waller (1606-1687) 359From Poems (1686) 361

To the King, on His Navy 361The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied 362Upon Ben Jonson 362At Penshurst ["Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made"] 363The Battle of the Summer Islands 364On a Girdle 369Song ["Go, lovely rose!"] 369On St. James's Park, As Lately Improved by His Majesty 370Of English Verse 373Of the Last Verses in the Book 374

John Milton (1608-1674) 377From Poems (1645) 379

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 379On Time 387

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On Shakespeare 387L'Allegro 388II Penseroso 392Sonnet 7 ["How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth"] 396Sonnet 8 ["Captain or colonel, or knight in arms"] 397Sonnet 9 ["Lady that in the prime of earliest youth"] 397Lycidas 398

From Poems (1673) 404Sonnet 12 ["I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs"] 404Sonnet 13: To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Airs 404Sonnet 16: To the Lord General Cromwell, May 1652 405Sonnet 18: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 406Sonnet 19 ["When I consider how my light is spent"] 406Sonnet 20 ["Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son"] 407Sonnet 23 ["Methought I saw my late espoused saint"] 407

Sir John Suckling (1609-1641) 409From Fragmenta Aurea (1646) 411

Loving and Beloved 411A Sessions of the Poets 412Sonnets 415

I 415II 416III 417

Against Fruition [1] 418Upon My Lady Carlisle's Walking in Hampton Court Garden 419"That none beguiled be by time's quick flowing" 420Against Fruition [2] 421A Ballad upon a Wedding 421"My dearest rival, lest our love" 425Song ["Why so pale and wan, fond lover?"] 426

From The Last Remains of Sir John Suckling (1659) 427"Out upon it! I have loved" 427A Song to a Lute 427

William Cartwright (1611-1643) 429From Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, With Other Poems (1651) 431

To Mr. W. B., at the Birth of His First Child 431To Chloe, Who Wished Herself Young Enough for Me 432A Valediction 433No Platonic Love 433

James Graham (1612-1650) 435From A Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems

(1711) 437"My dear and only love, I pray" 437

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) 439From The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650) 441

The Prologue 441A Dialogue between Old England and New . . . 442

Richard Crashaw (1612/13-1649) 451From Steps to the Temple (1646) 453

Upon the Infant Martyrs 453Upon the Ass that Bore Our Savior 453

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Upon Lazarus His Tears 453On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord 453On Mr. G. Herbert 's Book 454

From Delights of the Muses (1646) 455Music's Duel 455

From Carmen Deo Nostro (1652) 459In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by

the Shepherds 459Saint Mary Magdalene or The Weeper 462A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa 467The Flaming Heart 471To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, The Countess of Denbigh 474

Sir John Denham (1615-1669) 477From Poems and Translations (1668) 479

Cooper's Hill 479Richard Lovelace (1618-1657/8) 489

From Lucasta (1649) 491To Lucasta. Going Beyond the Seas. Song. Set by Mr. Henry

Lawes 491To Lucasta. Going to the Wars. Song. Set by Mr. John

Laniere 491To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair. Song.

Set by Mr. Henry Lawes 492Gratiana Dancing and Singing 493The Scrutiny. Song. Set by Mr. Thomas Charles 493The Grasshopper. Ode. To My Noble Friend, Mr. Charles

Cotton 494The Vintage to the Dungeon. A Song. Set by Mr. William

Lawes 495To Lucasta. From Prison. An Epode 496To Althea. From Prison. Song. Set by Dr. John Wilson 497La Bella Bona Roba 498The Fair Beggar 499

From Lucasta. Posthume Poems (1659) 500The Snail 500A Loose Saraband 501Love Made in the First Age. To Chloris 503A Mock-Song 504A Fly Caught in a Cobweb 505Advice to My Best Brother, Colonel Francis Lovelace 506

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) 509From The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley (1668) 511

From Miscellanies 511The Motto 511Ode. Of Wit 512On the Death of Mr. William Hervey 514On the Death of Mr. Crashaw 518

From Anacreontics; Or, Some Copies of Verses TranslatedPeriphrastically out of Anacreon 519I. Love 519VIII. The Epicure 520

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X. The GrasshopperFrom The Mistress

The SpringPlatonic LoveAgainst Fruition

From Pindaric OdesTo Mr. Hobbes

From Verses Written on Several OccasionsOde. Upon Dr. Harvey

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)From Miscellaneous Poems (1681)

A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created PleasureOn a Drop of DewThe CoronetEyes and TearsBermudasA Dialogue between the Soul and BodyThe Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her FawnTo His Coy MistressThe Definition of LoveThe Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of FlowersThe Mower against GardensDamon the MowerThe Mower to the GlowwormsThe Mower's SongMusic's EmpireThe GardenAn Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from IrelandUpon Appleton House

Henry Vaughan(16217-1695)From Poems (1646)

To My Ingenuous Friend, R. W.To Amoret, of the Difference 'twixt Him and Other Lovers,

and What True Love IsFrom Silex Scintillans, Part I (1650)

RegenerationThe SearchThe ShowerDistractionThe PursuitVanity of SpiritThe RetreatThe Morning WatchPeace["And do they so? Have they a sense"]CorruptionThe WorldMan["I walked the other day . . ."]

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Cock-crowingThe BirdThe TimberThe Dwelling PlaceThe NightQuicknessThe Book

Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)From Poems and Fancies (1664)

The Poetress's Hasty ResolutionThe Poetress s PetitionAn Apology for Writing So Much upon This BookA World Made by AtomsWhat Atoms Make a Palsy, or ApoplexyIn All Other Diseases Atoms Are Mixed, Taking Parts and

FactionsAll Things Are Governed by AtomsA War betwixt AtomsAtoms and Motion Fall OutAn Agreement of Some Kind of Motion with Some Kind of

AtomsMotion Directs while Atoms DanceIf Infinite Worlds, There Must Be Infinite CentersOf Infinite MatterOf the Motion of the BloodOf Many Worlds in This WorldThe Hunting of the HareA Description of an IslandThe Ruin of This IslandUpon the Funeral of My Dear Brother, Killed in These

Unhappy WarsThomas Stanley (1625-1678)

From Poems (1651)The GlowwormChanged, Yet ConstantCelia SingingLove's InnocenceLa Belle ConfidenteThe Bracelet

From Poems and Translations (1647)Expectation

John Dryden (1631-1700)From Three Poems upon the Death of His Highness Oliver Lord

Protector (1659)Heroic Stanzas

Astraea Redux (1660)From Chorea Gigantum (1663)

To My Honored Friend, Dr. CharletonKatherine Philips (1631-1664)

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Arion on a Dolphin, To His Majesty at His Passage intoEngland

On the Third of September, 1651Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest LucasiaA Retired Friendship, To ArdeliaTo the Excellent Mrs. Anne Owen . . .To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our FriendshipTo Mrs. M. A. at PartingA Country LifeEpitaph. On Her Son H. P. at St. Sith's ChurchAgainst LoveAn Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage

Thomas Traherne (1637-1674)From the Dohell Folio

The SalutationWonderEdenThe RaptureMy SpiritLove

From The Third CenturyOn News

From the Burney ManuscriptThe ReturnShadows in the WaterOn Leaping over the Moon

Textual NotesAemilia LanyerJohn DonneBen JonsonRichard CorbettLady Mary WrothRobert HerrickGeorge HerbertThomas CarewJames ShirleyMildmay FaneThomas RandolphWilliam HabingtonEdmund WallerJohn MiltonSir John SucklingWilliam CartwrightJames GrahamAnne BradstreetRichard CrashawSir John DenhamRichard LovelaceAbraham Cowley

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Andrew Marvell 713Henry Vaughan 715Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle 715Thomas Stanley 716John Dryden 716Katherine Philips 717Thomas Traherne 717

CriticismSEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CRITICISM 721

Ben Jonson • From Timber, or Discoveries 721[Poets and "Wits"] 721[Knowledge and Ignorance] 725[Language and Learning] 725[Poets and Poetry] 727

Ben Jonson • From Conversations with William Drummond ofHawthornden 730

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon • From The Life of Edward,Earl of Clarendon 733

John Dryden 734[Observations on Jonson's Art] 734[Donne "Affects the Metaphysics"] 735

Dr. Samuel Johnson • From Lives of the English Poets 736[Waller] 736[Denham] 738[Cowley] 739[Dryden] 744

RECENT CRITICISM

Lawrence Babb • The Physiology and Psychology of theRenaissance 749

T. S. Eliot • The Metaphysical Poets 764William Empson • Donne the Space Man 771Janel Mueller • Women among the Metaphysicals: A Case,

Mostly, of Being Donne For 795Earl Miner • [The Cavalier Ideal of the Good Life] 805Raymond Williams • Pastoral and Counter-Pastoral 817Ann Baynes Coiro • Writing in Service: Sexual Politics and

Class Position in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Ben Jonson 823Gordon Braden • Beyond Frustration: Petrarchan Laurels in the

Seventeenth Century 838William Kerrigan • Kiss Fancies in Robert Herrick 851Gerald Hammond • Caught in the Web of Dreams: The Dead 862Aldous Huxley • [The Inner Weather] 875W. H. Auden • [Anglican George Herbert] 875Joseph H. Summers • The Poem as Hieroglyph 878Michael Schoenfeldt • "That Spectacle of Too Much Weight":

The Poetics of Sacrifice in Donne, Herbert, and Milton 890Eavan Boland • Finding Anne Bradstreet 907William Empson • Marvell's 'Garden' 918Joseph H. Summers • Marvell's "Nature" 921

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Leah Marcus • Children of Light: Vaughan and Traherne 931William Kerrigan • Transformations of Friendship in the Work

of Katherine Philips 955

Select Bibliography 971Index 981