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Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry

By Cleanth Brooks (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1979–80; 1980–81)

Poetry; British Literature; Seventeenth-Century; English Literature

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991

From the publisher’s description:

This series of case studies examines the degree and extent to which some dozen particular seventeenth-century poems deal with the history of the time out of which they came. 

Subjects
History / Literary Criticism / Poetry / British Literature / Seventeenth-Century / English Literature /

Brooks, Cleanth (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1979–80; 1980–81). Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991.