MINOR POETS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYEDITED BY R. G. HOWATHProfessor of English Literature in the University of Cape TownINTRODUCTION THE poets of the seventeenth century, excluding Milton, may be broadly divided into three groups: those who cling to the ideals of a past age, those who are influenced by modern, revolutionary example, and those who look forward to the poetry of the future. They are the Spenserians, the followers of Jonson and Donne, and the transitional or early Augustan poets. Of the first class the chief representatives are Giles and Phineas Fletcher, William Browne, and George Wither. The second group may be subdivided into Cavalier lyrists and sacred poets, the former holding mainly from Jonson, the latter deriving from, Donne. Hernck, Carew, Suckling, and Lovelace are the bestknown Cavaliers, and George Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, and Traherne the leading divine poets. Among the first consistent users of the heroic couplet, the writers of smooth verse, Waller must...

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