PART FOUR. Moderation and Excess in the Seventeenth-Century Symposiastic Lyric

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments and Note on Citations vii
4. Introduction: Ancient Paradigms in Modern Conflicts 1
5. PART ONE. Two Early Modern Revisions of the Mean 19
6. PART TWO. Means and Extremes in Early Modern Georgic 77
7. PART THREE. Erotic Excess and Early Modern Social Conflicts 143
8. PART FOUR. Moderation and Excess in the Seventeenth-Century Symposiastic Lyric 197
9. PART FIVE. Reimagining Moderation: The Miltonic Example 253
10. Postscript. Sublime Excess, Dull Moderation, and Contemporary Ambivalence 285
11. Notes 289
12. Index 353