Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660

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Harvard University Press, 1990 - 394 páginas
Offers new interpretations of poems by Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace, and looks at five themes in seventeenth century English poetry.

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Thresholds
1
Praising and Blaming
15
Strafford and Buckingham
41
The King
67
Ben Jonson at Court
99
Ben Jonson in Bed
121
Reading Shakespeare
141
Lycidas
176
Proverbs
221
Going Round and Standing Still
246
Civilized Behavior
270
Embarrassing Positions
295
Roses and Hair
324
Loyalties
347
Notes
369
Index
385

The Dead
194

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Gerald Hammond was born in 1926. He was an architect for thirty years before retiring in 1982. He has written over thirty mystery novels and is the creator of John Cunningham, dog breeder in Scotland, and Keith Calder, gunsmith. He also writes under the pseudonyms Arthur Douglas and Dalby Holden.

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