Beschreibung:
This book offers a fresh examination of key seventeenth-century writers in the context of their common interest in the philosophical tradition of Stoicism.
Introduction; 1. Conflict and constancy in seventeenth-century England; 2. Andrew Marvell: the Stoicism of nature, war and work; 3. Katherine Philips: the Stoicism of hatred and forgiveness; 4. Jonson, Marvell, Milton: the Stoicism of friendship and imitation; 5. John Milton: the Stoicism of history and providence; Notes; Index.