Poetry and revolution : an anthology of British and Irish verse 1625-1660
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Poetry and revolution : an anthology of British and Irish verse 1625-1660
Oxford University Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Poetry and Revolution is a radical re-examination of the canon of mid-seventeenth-century verse. The author questions and discards the old description of the period as 'Cavalier Poetry' and advances instead a tumultuous, pluralistic canon rich in radical writing and poetry by those marginalized until recently in historical and literary accounts of the period. As well as a substantial quantity of women's verse, much of it previously unpublished, Poetry
and Revolution contains Irish, Scots, Scots Gaelic, and Welsh verse. This is in sympathy with the current debate about the Civil Wars which challenges the old exclusive focus on England and sees the events of the mid century in a wider context.
The book has very full historical and bibliographical information, explication of all allusions, translations of all verse not in English, old spelling texts derived in every case from primary sources, and a wide ranging introduction covering such subjects as canon-formation, historical fiction, and the revision of the literary history of the period.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Note on the Text and Annotation
- I. Friendship, Affection, and Love
- II. Song Texts and Poems about Music
- III. Spiritual Poems and Prophecies
- IV. Halcyon Dayes: Peace and the Good Life
- V. Poems of War and Revolution
- VI. The Restoration
- Appendix 1: Index of Classical and Biblical Names
- Appendix 2: Index of Contemporary Names
- Appendix 3: Biographical Notes on Author
- Appendix 4: Chronology 1625-1660
- Appendix 5: Index of Authors
- Index of Titles and First Lines
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