The wit of seventeenth-century poetry
By: edited by Claude J. Summers & Ted-Larry Pebworth.
Contributors: Summers, Claude J.; Pebworth, Ted-Larry.; Renaissance Conference (10th : 1992 : University of Michigan--Dearborn)
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Humorous poetry, English -- History and criticism -- Congresses; English wit and humor -- History and criticism -- Congresses; England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century -- Congresses
Description: As the twelve original essays collected in this volume demonstrate, to study the wit of seventeenth-century poetry is necessarily to address concerns at the very heart of the period's shifting literary culture. It is a topic that raises persistent questions of thematics and authorial intent, even as it interrogates a wide spectrum of cultural practices.

These essays by some of the most renowned scholars in seventeenth-century studies illuminate important authors and engage issues of politics and religion, of secular and sacred love, of literary theory and poetic technique, of gender relations and historical consciousness, of literary history and social change, as well as larger concerns of literary production and smaller ones of local effects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays presented at the 10th biennial Renaissance Conference held at the University of Michigan--Dearborn, October 16-17, 1992.