Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry

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Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivity

Early modern poems of praise typically insist that they do not have a purpose or enact real labor beyond their effortless listing of laudable qualities. And yet the poets discussed in this study, including Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, Anne Bradstreet, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton, hint at an alternative...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0810146703

ISBN13:9780810146709

Release Date:March 2024

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry

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