| Description |
x, 156 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
A cavalier letter writer -- Some seventeenth-century books of wonders -- Izaak Walton and the ideal world -- Some remarks on Richard Crashaw -- A once great reputation -- Mr. Pepys' account of an actress -- Avaunt, base melancholy! -- Holy dying and the agnostic -- Footnote on biographies -- "A pleasant air but a barren soil" -- Ballads of cavalier and puritan -- George Herbert's Literary executor -- Thomas Traherne, a late-discovered poet -- The wisdom of Sir Thomas Browne -- Francis Quarles' Emblems as seen in the twentieth century -- Henry Vaughan in a strange age -- The ambitious philosopher -- Thomas Carew and the poetry of his time -- Advice from a trimmer -- Dorothy Osborne's letters -- Resolves of a royalist -- Andrew Marvell in the meadows |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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