The map of time : seventeenth-century English literature and ideas of pattern in history
Criticism, interpretation, etc
284 pages ; 24 cm
9780252012648, 025201264X
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Francis Bacon: the cycles of error and the progress of truth
John Donne: the idea of decay
Ben Jonson: stoic constancy and cyclical vicissitude
Robert Herrick: "Repullulation" and the cyclical order
John Milton: providential progress or cyclical decay
John Dryden: providence, progress, and the cycles of history