Title: The wit of seventeenth-century poetry
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.
Subjects: English Humorous poetry, English wit and humor, Congresses, English poetry, History and criticism, Intellectual life, English poetry, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Humorous poetry, Great britain, intellectual life
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700