<strong>English Lyric Poetry</strong> is a comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of theearly seventeenth century. The study is directed at both beginning a... » 

English Lyric Poetry is a comprehensive reassessment of lyric poetry of theearly seventeenth century. The study is directed at both beginning and moreadvanced students of literature and responds to more specialised scholarlyinquiries pursued of late in relation to specific poets.This extremely lucid and elegantly written book avoids the limitations of muchrecent criticism. Donne Jonson the Spenserians Herbert Milton MarvellVaughan as well as many noncanonical and women poets all receive sustainedfresh and detailed analysis. Jonathan Post seeks to assimilate many of thepostNew Critical theoretical concerns with readings of the major and minormale and female authors of the period. «