Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 12:21:43 -0500
From: Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Carew and Yawp (Was Re: PLC: Re: phillitcrit-digest V1 #193)


At 08:48 AM 12/2/97 -0800, you (Thad Q. Alexander (rattler-AT-inreach.net)) wrote:
>Yes, very much interested and needing to do a short paper, actually two. What
>period was Carew from, early 17th as Donne, or the Restoration period?

lived about 1595 to just before 1640 (dates not completely certain)

the first and maybe best/wittiest (in the late-16C/early-17C poetic sense of
"witty," sc, "conceits") of the "Cavalier" poets of the period leading up to
the Civil War; one of the "Sons of Ben [Jonson]"

a courtier of Chas I's

the poetry is rather sensual, often

drinking songs, love poery, but more some serious stuff too

that (English) generation's major poetic models were Donne and Jonson

as often then, the work was passed around and copied by the literati in ms.,
and only published posthumously (Poems, 164O)

if you want my opinion for what it's not worth, in the 17C "pre-Restoration"
period (1660 as more or less a cultural boundary) try Marvell's major
lyrical/personal/etc. poetry, Milton's "minor" poems, Vaughan, and Crashaw
-- though there are others of course....

Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing-AT-nyu.edu or downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu



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