The Poetry of Suckling (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir John Suckling
- First Published: 1646
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Cavalier poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Soldiers, Royal courts or courtiers
Critical Evaluation:
Sir John Suckling, like many of the other writers at the court of Charles I, was an inheritor of the poetic traditions of both John Donne and Ben Jonson, literary masters of the preceding generation. From Donne came the tone of gay cynicism that pervades Suckling’s love lyrics, while the classical smoothness of Jonson’s verse is reflected in the clarity, precision and easy flow of the brief stanzas of his successor. There is, however, very little of Donne’s tough intellectualism in Suckling’s poetry; though he occasionally develops a poem as an...
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