"Rowland examines Marvell's political poetry and Dryden's Annus Mirabilis, showing how panegyrical writing developed into mock-panegyric and satire, increasingl

Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvi

Part of a series which follows the outline of writers' working lives, aiming to trace the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writin