Product Description
This classic anthology, first published in 1921, has been instrumental in reviving interest in the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets and in securing for them the high reputation they now enjoy. This new edition includes the same poems as the original--love poems, divine poems, elegies, satires, epistles, and meditations by over twenty-five different poets ranging from Suckling and Donne to Marvell and Herbert. Grierson's brilliant introductory essay is included, while Alastair Fowler has contributed a new introduction and notes and modernized the spellings throughout.
About the Author
Alastair Fowler is Professor of English at the Universities of Virginia and Edinburgh, between which he divides his time. He is the editor of The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (1992).
