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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
colleague, Stephen Yenser, and his fine eye for the phrase, this study might never
have had a chance of being “finished.” That it has been completed is owing,
once again, to my wife, Susan: “What other help could yet be meet!”
Although this is a book more about verse than the institutions which created
the conditions for poetry in the earlier seventeenth century, I am grateful for
the fortunate circumstances that currently exist at UCLA and in Los Angeles
for ongoing engagements with poetry present and past. The splendid program of
readings, most recently at the UCLA Hammer Museum, offers frequent
reminders of how earlier poets and their verse continue to surface in unexpected
ways among many of today’s authors. With their rich repositories of seventeenthcentury
materials, The Clark Library, the Huntington Library, and the
University Research Library are a scholar’s haven; I want to express my
appreciation to the librarians and staffs of each for the many courtesies extended
over the years, and to Lynda Tolly, true guardian of the departmental English
Reading Room. It is a pleasure to acknowledge as well the UCLA Center for
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, under the direction of Peter
Reill, and the Council on Research of the Academic Senate of the Los Angeles
Division of the University of California, for generously funding my research, and
the Center, again, for continuing to host academic programs pertinent to this
study. Finally, I am grateful for the continued encouragement offered by Talia
Rogers and Jason Arthur at Routledge. I want to thank them for their patience,
and Morgen Witzel for his help in preparing the manuscript for publication.
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