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 number of the greatest lyric poets writing in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Written by people who spend much of their time thinking in verse and about verse, these original essays herald the return of the early modern lyric as crucial to understanding the present moment of poetry in the United States. This work provides fascinating insights into what today's poets find of special interest in their forebears. In addition, these discussions shed light on the contributors' own poetry and offer compelling clues to how the poetry of the past continues to inform that of the present
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 300 pages ; 24 cm
9780520214552, 9780520227521, 0520214552, 0520227522
47716509
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
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