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Literary Lives and Poetry
Seventeenth-century literary lives and poetry, including biographical memory, plague writing, and English verse across the Atlantic world.
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Brief Lives Volume IJohn Aubrey's intimate biographical sketches of over 400 notable figures of the English Renaissance, from Shakespeare to Hobbes, compiled between 1669 and 1696.Brief Lives Volume IIThe most important collection of biographical sketches from 17th-century England. Volume II covers lives from I to Y, including Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones, John Milton, Isaac Newton, William Penn, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Edmund Waller, and Sir Christopher Wren.Bunyan — James Anthony FroudeJames Anthony Froude's 1880 critical biography of John Bunyan, tracing his conversion, imprisonment, and the writing of The Pilgrim's Progress, Grace Abounding, and The Holy War.Collected Works of Anne BradstreetA collected public-domain edition of Anne Bradstreet's authenticated poems, prose meditations, and original paratexts.The Wonderfull YeareThomas Dekker's eyewitness pamphlet on the death of Queen Elizabeth and the Great Plague of London, 1603 — one of the masterworks of Jacobean prose.