English Seventeenth-Century Verse

By Louis L. Martz

This anthology contains a wide and comprehensive selection of poetry, including large selections from both the secular and he religious poetry of John Donne, and from George Herbert, RichardCrashaw, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan, along with representative poetry by Francis Quarles, Thomas Traherne, Robert Southwell, and William Alabaster.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393006751
• ISBN13: 9780393006759
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Norton
• Length: 2 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

An absolutely first-rate collection

The Metaphysical Poets were unjustly ignored for centuries until T.S. Eliot and the other Modernist poets brought them back to popular attention. John Donne and Andrew Marvell are among the most famous poets in any language; the metaphysical style, with its intensely worked metaphors and striking impact, has never really been equalled for approachable complexity. Louis Martz' anthology has been the classroom standard for nearly three decades, with his authoritative texts. If you love smart, emotional poetry from poets for whom love and faith are not abstract issues, than this is the collection for you!

Great Collection

This volume has a wonderful selection of seventeenth century poetry by nine authors. There are many poems for each poet so it's probably one of the more complete sources for the poetry of each of these people.