"The Muses common-weale"
Subtitle: poetry and politics in the seventeenth century
By: edited by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth.
Contributors: Summers, Claude J.; Pebworth, Ted-Larry.; Renaissance Conference (7th : 1986 : University of Michigan-Dearborn)
Series: Essays in seventeenth-century literature ;; 3
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.; Political poetry, English -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century -- Congresses.
Other titles: Muses commonweal.
Description: "Studying works by Donne, Jonson, Carew, Davenant, Herbert, Herrick, Crashaw, Marvell, Milton, Vaughan, and others, the fourteen new essays in this collection examine seventeenth-century poetry in light of that turbulent age's social and political tensions." -- dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Presented at the Seventh Biennial Renaissance Conference at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, 17-18 October, 1986--P. 4.