Seventeenth-Century English Literature [antikvár]

Preface to the Second Edition This short introduction to English literature in the seventeenth century was written more than twenty years ago. Valuable criticism has been published since then and significant research has added to our knowledge. I am therefore grateful to the publisher for this opportunity to revise my text and bring the bibliography up to date. Although my own opinions are, in some respects at least, more cautious than they were twenty years ago, I have allowed the greater part oL the original text to stand and have altered it only where errors needed correction or new research made some modification essential. But I have largely re-written the chapter on Milton to embody not only some of the more important recent research on his life and works, but also my own more mature opinions. I would like to record my thanks to Mr. Gerald Doherty for his valuable work in compiling the bibliography and to the staff of the Clarendon Press for the care and patience they have shown at every stage of the revision. 1969 C. V. Wedgwood