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By Philip Major

ISBN-10: 1472458419

ISBN-13: 9781472458414

Sir John Denham (1614/15–1669) Reassessed shines new mild on a novel, vibrant but elusive determine of seventeenth-century English letters. regardless of his impression as a poet, wit, courtier, exile, flesh presser and surveyor of the king's works, Denham, continues to be a overlooked determine. the unique essays during this interdisciplinary assortment give you the sustained glossy severe recognition his existence and paintings benefit.


The e-book either examines for the 1st time and reassesses very important good points of Denham's existence and reputations: his friendship circles, his position as a political satirist, his spiritual dispositions, his playwriting years, and the private, political and literary repercussions of his lengthy exile; and provides clean interpretations of his poetic magnum opus, Coopers Hill. development at the fresh resurgence of scholarly curiosity in royalists and royalism, in addition to on recovery literature and drama, this energetic account of Denham's impact questions assumptions approximately smartly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and literary obstacles. What emerges is a fancy guy who subverts in addition to reinforces traditional characterisations of courtroom wit, gambler and dilettante.

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