Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse written by Alastair Fowler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Shakespeare to Milton to Donne to Dryden, the poets of the seventeenth century produced great triumphs of English verse. Now The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse casts a wider net than ever before, collecting both classic works from the literary canon and the verse of many women, minor poets, and Americans who have been ignored for far too long. Edited by the eminent scholar Alastair Fowler, this is the finest anthology of its kind.