Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Introduction: Green Thoughts, Green Shades 1
5. One. The Face of the Sonnet. Wyatt and Some Early Features of the Tradition 17
6. Two. Sidney and the Sestina 41
7. Three. Naked Numbers. A Curve from Wyatt to Rochester 59
8. Four. Ben Jonson and the Loathèd Word 86
9. Five. Donne’s Sovereignty 109
10. Six. Anomaly, Conundrum, Thy-Will-Be-Done. On the Poetry of George Herbert 136
11. Seven. Milton in the Modern. The Invention of Personality 160
12. Eight. Finding Anne Bradstreet 176
13. Nine. Unordinary Passions. Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle 191
14. Ten. “How coy a Figure”. Marvelry 220
15. Eleven. Saint John the Rake. Rochester’s Poetry 242
16. Twelve. Edward Taylor. What Was He Up To? 257
17. List of Contributors 289
18. Index 293