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The Wit of Seventeenth-century Poetry - Hardcover

 
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Synopsis

Wit is one of the fundamental keys to the theory and practice of 17th-century English poetry. The 12 essays collected in this volume argue that to study the wit of 17th-century poetry is to address concerns at the heart of the period's literary culture.

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About the Author

Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth are both William E. Stirton Professors in the Humanities and Professors of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.  Among works they have edited are Renaissance Discourses of Desire, On the Celebrated and Neglected Poems of Andrew Marvell, "The Muses Common-Weale":  Poetry and Politics in the Seventeenth Century, and "Bright Shootes of Everlastingnesse":  The Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric.

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