The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland - Annotated by Tom Cain (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This edition of some 500 recently discovered poems by Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland represents the largest collection of "new" 17th-century poetry since Traherne's poems were published almost a century ago. Until the rediscovery of these manuscripts, written between 1625 and 1665, Fane was known only as a patron of Robert Herrick, and as the author of a slim volume of poems, Otia Sacra (1648). This important body of manuscript poetry establishes him as a significant early modern poet. From his privileged position near the very centre of the conflict, he confronted one of the most climactic and influential sequences of events in European history: the Personal Rule of Charles I, the Great Rebellion of the 1640s, the execution of the King, the establishment of a republic, and, with its failure, the restoration of the monarchy.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This edition of some five hundred recently-discovered poems by Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland presents the largest collection of 'new' seventeenth-century poetry since Traherne's poems were published almost a century ago. Until the rediscovery of these manuscripts, written between 1625 and 1665, Fane was known only as a patron of Robert Herrick, and as the author of a slim volume of poems, Otia Sacra (1648). This important body of manuscript poetry establishes him as a significant early modern poet. Fane's agonised and changing representation of an England turned upside-down and back again, and of its everyday social as well as political life, is meticulously annotated in this first edition. It uses Fane's surviving account books and letters, as well as a wealth of other contemporary information, to contextualise his poems in a way rarely possible with other early modern writers. The resulting text provides fascinating and revealing insights for cultural and political historians, as well as for all readers of English poetry.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The volume opens up a fascinating and extensive body of mid-seventeenth century poetry for the first time" --Joad Raymond, "Literature and History"<br><br>“The volume opens up a fascinating and extensive body of mid-seventeenth century poetry for the first time” --Joad Raymond, "Literature and History"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br>Tom Cain is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia<br>
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