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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Title: The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of the Right Honourable Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke ...: Cælica in Ox. Sonnets. the Poem Plays: Alaham; Mustapha. With Additions and Various ReadingsVolume: 3General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1870Original Publisher: Printed for private circulation [by C. Tiplady and son]Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: Yet vnto Thee Lord -- mirrour of transgression -- "Wee who for earthly idols haue forsaken, Thy heauenly image -- sinlesse, pure impression -- And so in nets of vanity lye taken, All desolate implore that to Thine owne, Lord, Thou no longer Hue a God vnknowne. Yet Lord let Israel's plagues not be eternall, Nor sinne for euer cloud Thy sacred mountaines, Nor with false flames spirituall but infernall, Dry up Thy Mercie's euer springing fountaines : Bather, sweet lesus, fill up time and come, To yeeld the sinne her euerlasting doome. I. A FANCY.1(BY SIE EDWABD DYEE.)HE that his mirth hath lost, Whose comfort is dismayed, "Whose hope is vain, whose faith is scorned, Whose trust is all betrayed, If he have held them dear, And cannot cease to moan, Come, let him take his place by me ; He shall not rue alone. But if the smallest sweet Be mixed with all his sour: If in the day, the month, the year, He feel one lightening hour, 1 MS. Eawl. Poet. 85, fol. 109, signed as below ; MS. Tann. 306, fol. 173, with the same signature; MS. Ashm. 781, p. HO, signed " Sr Ed. Dyer: " and Harl. MS. 6910, fol. 159. Authenticated by Dyer himself through the secret signature near the end, and ascribed to him by K. Southwell in t... ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Poet and playwright Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was a great favorite at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.This volume includes A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney--written about his close friend and revealing much of the "human" side of Sidney--and the incomplete Letter to An Honourable Lady, previously available only in collections of Greville's writings.This edition is modernized to make it more accessible and includes a substantial commentary, a glossary, and an index. ... Read more

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This title presents for the first time the full texts of Lord Brooke. The availability of these texts will initiate a new perspective in Sixteenth-Century Studies; a process already begun with the author's introduction. Fulke Greville is one of the most enigmatic of the Elizabethans. He served three monarchs - Elizabeth, James and Charles - achieving high office in the state and amassing considerable wealth. The contrast between the worldliness of his career and the inwardness of his poetry has led to theories of 'the dualism of Fulke Greville', but the explanation lies rather in the development of his thought.Taking up verse as one of the accomplishments of the courtier, Greville ventured on the sonnet sequence "Coelica" (written concurrently with Sir Philip Sidney's "Astrophil and Stella"), but came out on the other side. He turned next to the Senecan play, and in "Mustapha" and "Alaham" dramatized various subversive political viewpoints, and made the Senecan chorus an instrument of reflection and debate. An anonymous and unauthorized text of "Mustapha" was published in 1609.From the choruses of the plays developed the first of the verse treatises, "A Treatise of Monarchy", an exercise in Realpolitik. The issues encountered but not resolved in "Monarchy" led to a further set of treatises, showing Greville's deepening moral vision and his exploration of the treatise as an art form. His confidence that the state may be reformed, if the right policies are adopted ("Monarchy"), yields finally to a loss of faith in human institutions altogether. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1875 edition by Longmans, Green, and Co., London. ... Read more

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Greville was a brilliant Elizabethan poet.
Though recognized by famous poet-critics like Hollander and Winters, Greville's genius is little known to most; but it sings through countless lines. Take the power of passages like this: "The error's uglyinfinite impression, / Which bears the faithless down todesperation"...(Greville is a religious poet even atheists can love)Or this: "For Love is of the Phoenix-kind, / And burns itself inself-made fire / To breed still new birds in the mind / From ashes of theold desire." Or delicious double-entendres like this: "For Cupidis a meadow-god, / And forceth none to kiss the rod." (You can guesswhat naughty thing "the rod" suggests.) Greville is a master ofdensity, intensity, rhythmic flow and counterpointing, disorientation, andbrilliantly combines the plain and florid styles. One of the most"difficult" Elizabethans, his "gnarled introspection"makes him one of that period's most interesting love poets, as in theselines that Coleridge loved:

"Mad girls must safely love, as theymay leave; No man can print a kiss: lines may deceive." And also apoet of estrangement, as in these:

"My age of joy is past, of woesbegun, Absence my presence is, strangeness my grace;"

And ofpsychological complexity, as in his famous poem-parable of Merlin as achild. ... Read more