Jonathan F.S. Post 
Green Thoughts, Green Shades 
Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric

Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today’s most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the greatest lyric poets writing in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Written by people who spend much of their time thinking in verse and about verse, these original essays herald the return of the early modern lyric as crucial to understanding the present moment of poetry in the United States. This work provides fascinating insights into what today’s poets find of special interest in their forebears. In addition, these discussions shed light on the contributors’ own poetry and offer compelling clues to how the poetry of the past continues to inform that of the present.

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Acknowledgments


Introduction: Green Thoughts, Green Shades

Jonathan F.S. Post


1. The Face of the Sonnet: Wyatt and Some Early Features of the Tradition

Peter Sacks


2. Sidney and the Sestina

Anthony Hecht


3. Naked Numbers: A Curve from Wyatt to Rochester

Heather Mc Hugh


4. Ben Jonson and the Loathèd Word

Linda Gregerson


5. Donne’s Sovereignty

Calvin Bedient


6. Anomaly, Conundrum, Thy-Will-Be-Done: On the Poetry of George Herbert

Carl Phillips


7. Milton in the Modern: The Invention of Personality

William Logan


8. Finding Anne Bradstreet

Eavan Boland


9. Unordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle

Alice Fulton


10. ‘How coy a Figure’: Marvelry

Stephen Yenser


11. Saint John the Rake: Rochester’s Poetry

Thom Gunn


12. Edward Taylor: What Was He Up To?

Robert Hass


List of Contributors

Index

Over de auteur

Jonathan F. S. Post is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of English Lyric Poetry: The Early Seventeenth Century (1999), Sir Thomas Browne (1987), and Henry Vaughan: The Unfolding Vision (1982).