The Divine Science: The Aesthetic of Some Representative Seventeenth-century English Poets

Abraham Cowley artistic audience beauty Ben Jonson Britannia's Pastorals Browne Carew century classical Columbia Columbia ed comedy Complete Plays concept Cowley's Crashaw critics Davenant Defensio delight desire divine Donne doth Dramatic Drayton early English epic Epistles Essays fame Fletcher gift Giles Giles Fletcher glory Gondibert hath Herbert heroic Herrick Ibid idea imitation immortality inspiration Jonson lbid lofty lyric Marvell Masque Metaphysical Poets Milton Mistress Muse nature noble numbers Odes Paradise Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd passion perfect Phineas Phineas Fletcher Pindar Plays and Sundry Poems of Abraham Poesie poet's Poetaster poetic theory Poly-Olbion praise preface prose purpose reader Reason of Church-government religious poetry Renaissance Richard Crashaw rime satire Satyre secular Seventeenth seventeenth-century shepherd sing Smectymnuus song sonnet Spenser spirit stanza style subject matter sweet teach thee theme theory of poetry things Thomas Carew thou thought tion translation truth type of poetry Vergil virtue Whalley Wither worthy writing