Soliciting Interpretation
Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry

376 pages
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6 halftones
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6.00 x 9.00
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© 1990
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Katharine Eisaman Maus and Elizabeth D. Harvey
I. The Politics of Poetic Representation
1. The Monarchy of Wit and the Republic of Letters: Donne’s Politics
David Norbrook
2. All Donne
Annabel Patterson
3. From the Superfluous to the Supernumerary: Reading Gender into Paradise Lost
John Guillory
4. "Joyning my Labour to my Pain": The Politics of Labor in Marvell’s Mower Poems
Rosemary Kegl
5. Jonson and the Amazons
Stephen Orgel
II. Literary Thought and the Transmission of the Text
6. Shakespeare’s Sonnets as Literary Property
Arthur F. Marotti
7. Jacobean Poetry and Lyric Disappointment
Jane Tylus
8. Dating Milton
Jonathan Goldberg
III. Poetic Subjectivity and the Language of Desire
9. Masculine Persuasive Force: Donne and Verbal Power
Stanley Fish
10. Unspeakable Love: Petrarch to Herbert
Gordon Braden
11. "That Ancient Heat": Sexuality and Spirituality in The Temple
Michael C. Schoenfeldt
12. The Constant Subject: Instability and Authority in Wroth’s Urania Poems
Maureen Quilligan
List of Contributors
Index of Names
Introduction
Katharine Eisaman Maus and Elizabeth D. Harvey
I. The Politics of Poetic Representation
1. The Monarchy of Wit and the Republic of Letters: Donne’s Politics
David Norbrook
2. All Donne
Annabel Patterson
3. From the Superfluous to the Supernumerary: Reading Gender into Paradise Lost
John Guillory
4. "Joyning my Labour to my Pain": The Politics of Labor in Marvell’s Mower Poems
Rosemary Kegl
5. Jonson and the Amazons
Stephen Orgel
II. Literary Thought and the Transmission of the Text
6. Shakespeare’s Sonnets as Literary Property
Arthur F. Marotti
7. Jacobean Poetry and Lyric Disappointment
Jane Tylus
8. Dating Milton
Jonathan Goldberg
III. Poetic Subjectivity and the Language of Desire
9. Masculine Persuasive Force: Donne and Verbal Power
Stanley Fish
10. Unspeakable Love: Petrarch to Herbert
Gordon Braden
11. "That Ancient Heat": Sexuality and Spirituality in The Temple
Michael C. Schoenfeldt
12. The Constant Subject: Instability and Authority in Wroth’s Urania Poems
Maureen Quilligan
List of Contributors
Index of Names
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