Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Subtitle: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Annotated Anthologies)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780631210658
First sentence: When in 1598 Chapman dedicated his Seven Books of the Ihads (Books 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) to the Earl of Essex as the paramount living instance of 'Achilleian virtues', he was known on the one hand as a writer of comedy of humour, and on the other as the author of some ostentatiously obscure poems which associate him with the 'atheistic' intellectuals of the School of Night (the mathematician Matthew Roydon and the astronomer Thomas Harriot, as well as the poets Ralegh and Marlowe, whose Hero and Leander he completed that same year).