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Title:

The wit of seventeenth-century poetry / edited by Claude J. Summers & Ted-Larry Pebworth.

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

viii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--Congresses.--Congresses.
English wit and humor--Congresses.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Pebworth, Ted-Larry,
Summers, Claude J.
Renaissance Conference (10th : 1992 : University of Michigan--Dearborn)

Notes:

"Essays ... presented at the tenth biennial Renaissance Conference at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, October 16-17, 1992"--P. 3. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"No more wit that a Christian?" : the case of devotional poetry / Helen Wilcox -- The structure of wit : "Is all good structure in a winding stair?" / P.G. Stanwood and Lee M. Johnson -- Women's wit / Erna Kelly -- The wit of circumcision, the circumcision of wit / Jim Ellis -- Pygmalion's progress in the garden of love, or the wit's work is never Donne / Catherine Gimelli Martin -- Wit and the power of Jonson's Epigrammes -- George Herbert's pastoral wit / M.C. Allen -- My curious hand or eye : the wit of Richard Lovelace / Sharon Cadman Seelig -- The "truewit" of Crashaw's poetry / Lorraine Roberts -- Marvell's mower : the wit of survival / W.A. Sessions -- Religio Laici? : Dryden's men of wit and the printed word / Katherine M. Quinsey.

ISBN:

9780826209856 (alk. paper)
0826209858 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

94031210

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)