Author: Brooks, Cleanth
Title: Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Description: Columbia [MO], University of Missouri Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, (6), 169 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Poet's Sincerity: Henry King; A Merry Bishop on the Death of Merry England: Richard Corbett; Men of Blood & State: James Shirley; A Court Poet: Aurelian Towshend; On a Headless (and Nameless) "Trunck": Sir Richard Fanshawe; Philosophical Poet: Lord Herbert of Cherbury; Love, Time & Eternity: Andrew Marvell; A Pre-Romantic View of Nature: Sir Richard Lovelace; Poetry & History: Andrew Marvell; A Summarizing Epilogue.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, Seventeenth Century, Poetry Historical, Andrew Marvell, James SHirley, Aurelian Townshend, Richard Corbett, Richard Lovelace