Restoration Carnival

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Restoration Carnival
Folio Society
Poetry & Plays

Restoration Carnival

Edition year 1954
Binding Cloth
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 256
Dimensions 22.1 × 13.7 cm

Edition details

Restoration Carnival. Five Courtier Poets. Frontispiec and title-page border by T.L. Poulton. Bound in dark red cloth with a design in silver by John Westwood. White dust-jacket printed in red and black. 22.1x13.7cm. 256pp.

About the book

Restoration Carnival: Five Courtier Poets gathers verse from the glittering, competitive world of the later seventeenth-century English court. Rochester, Dorset, Sedley, Etherege and Sheffield write about desire, pleasure, reputation and disappointment with wit that can be elegant, sceptical or deliberately outrageous. These poems reveal a society in which polished manners and sharp satire often concealed uncertainty about love and human motives. The selection offers a lively introduction to Restoration poetry and to the voices that helped give the age of Charles II its reputation for verbal brilliance and irreverence.

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