English Poetry in the Seventeenth Century (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Introduction
A question that can be asked of any century’s poetry is whether it owes its character
to “forces”—nonliterary developments to which the poets respond more or
less sensitively—or whether, on the other hand, the practice of innovative and influential
poets mainly determines the poetry of the period. Clearly, great poets do not always shape the
literature of their century, as the cases of the twin giants of seventeenth century England,
William Shakespeare and [The entire page is 11737 words long]
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