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A Valuable Guide to An Often Underrated Poet.
This is a revised edition of an earlier work, updated in light of more recent scholarship. It nonetheless avoids the obscure style which too frequently mars current critical writing. Rollins is a lucid and elegantwriter, and he approaches his project logically and comprehensively.Strongly recommended. ... Read more

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LET'S GET METAPHYSICAL
This book... is a tremendous bargain.It situates Herrick outsideof the metaphysical box critics have long consigned him to.Coiro writeslike the oldest sister in a large brood:full of careful wisdom andhard-earned wit.What begins as a dry dissertation comes alive under thecareful hand of this renaissance scholar.Warning: don't bring this tometo the beach. ... Read more

Book Description
In this book of tragedy and great beauty, Rose Macaulay's only historical novel, she reveals a lifelong passion for the seventeenth century.Here she interweaves the lives of Robert Herrick and other poets with those of a small group of fictional characters, setting them vividly in one of the
most turbulent periods in English history."The the great enrichment of the English language Miss Macaulay has chosen an historical subject....She has added something permanent to English letters."--Observer

Rose Macaulay was a successful novelist whose works include Potterism and The Towers of Trebizond.

Susan Howatch is the author of The Dark Shore and Penmarric. ... Read more