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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In thinking and writing about seventeenth-century poetry, I have happily
acquired many debts. The longest standing are to Anthony Hecht and Joseph
Summers, former teachers, valued friends, and continual influences in my own
attempt to redress the balance between past and present understandings of
poetry written in this period. Over the years, Annabel Patterson has offered
many models and much encouragement for thinking about the seventeenth
century, especially about the relationship between literature and politics. I owe,
as well, more immediate debts to my Renaissance colleagues at UCLA: Michael
Allen, A.R.Braunmuller, Christopher Grose, Gordon Kipling, Claire
McEachern, Debora Shuger, and Robert Watson; to Anne Mellor, who helped
shape some of my thoughts about women poets in the period, although the
decision to include Anne Bradstreet is my own; and to the many students who
have been teaching me over the last decade and who are now themselves
teachers. I think especially of Marlin Blaine, Thad Bower, Margaret
Cunningham, Peter Goldstein, Lisa Gordis, Robin Grey, Gary Hall, Marge
Kingsley, Grainne McEvoy, Esther Gilman Richey, and Curtis Whitaker. I am
equally grateful to the students in my undergraduate courses on poetry for
continuing to give the lie to the notion that poetry is somehow in decline at
the end of the century.
Portions of this study have benefited significantly from specific occasions and
individuals. The late Georgia Christopher afforded me the opportunity as a
speaker at the 1992 Southeastern Renaissance Conference, held at the
University of South Carolina, to rethink the relationship between Herrick, lyric,
and history. Thomas Corns, after inviting me to extend my understanding of
Vaughan in an essay originally written for The Cambridge Companion to English
Poetry: Donne to Marvell, helped to improve the final version. Much of the
Herrick portion of Chapter 4 and all of Chapter 5 have appeared in The George
Herbert Journal; along the way, they profited from intelligent commentary by
Anne Coiro, Donald Friedman, Sidney Gottlieb, and Michael Schoenfeldt. A
special note of thanks goes to Reg Foakes, who got me started on this project; to
Joseph Summers, Robert Watson, and Curtis Whitaker, who, along with
Professor Foakes, read—and improved—large sections of the manuscript; and to
Professor John Richetti and the anonymous second reader for the press for their
many helpful suggestions, small and large. Without the encouragement of my
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