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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| "No More Wit Than a Christian?": The Case of Devotional Poetry | 9 | |
| The Structure of Wit: "Is All Good Structure in a Winding Stair?" | 22 | |
| Women's Wit | 42 | |
| The Wit of Circumcision, the Circumcision of Wit | 62 | |
| Pygmalion's Progress in the Garden of Love, or the Wit's Work is Never Donne | 78 | |
| Wit and the Power of Jonson's Epigrammes | 101 | |
| George Herbert's Pastoral Wit | 119 | |
| Witty by Design: Robert Herrick's Hesperides | 135 | |
| My Curious Hand or Eye: The Wit of Richard Lovelace | 151 | |
| The "Truewit" of Crashaw's Poetry | 171 | |
| Marvell's Mower: The Wit of Survival | 183 | |
| Religio Laici?: Dryden's Men of Wit and the Printed Word | 199 | |
| Notes on the Contributors | 215 | |
| Index | 219 |
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Leonard Hoffman
reviewed The Wit of Seventeenth-Century Poetry on December 12, 2013
The Wit of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Read only the Introduction, chps 1 and 2, and part of chp 3.
Re: Waugh at least, the book is more valuable as history and summary than original criticism. Although he marshals important and interesting work by others (Terry Eagleton, Raymond Williams), his own insights into Waugh's fiction are belabored (jargon, syntax) and ultimately unconvincing. He appears for instance to think that nuance is nothing more than self-contradiction (64; cf "schizophrenic incoherence" on 52), and he sees those whose work he studies -- Waugh, Strachey, Wilde -- as deconstructionists like himself.
On page 23 I imagined a killing look he'd have drawn from Virginia Woolf.
EDIT: I uncharitably forgot to mention that his analysis comes alive when discussing film.
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