Title: English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660 /
Authors: Bush, Douglas, 1896-1983
Publisher: Clarendon Press,
Year: 1962
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; English literature Bibliography; Great Britain Intellectual life
Abstract: An analysis of early 17th century literature and the times in which it was written. Portions of the text have been rewritten and the bibliography updated. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Contents: The background of the age -- Popular literature and translations -- The successors of Spenser: song-books and miscellanies -- Jonson, Donne, and their successors -- The literature of travel -- Essays and characters -- History and biography -- Political thought -- Science and scientific thought -- Religion and religious thought -- Heroic verse -- Milton.