Economies of Praise

Ryan Netzley is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of Lyric Apocalypse: Milton, Marvell, and the Nature of Events and Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: “You’re Great”: Value, Time, and the Reader’s Work in Seventeenth-Century Poems of Praise Chapter 1: The Value of Now: Jonson, Literary Presents, and the Surveying ReaderChapter 2: Insignificant Numbers: Sequence, Size, and the Value of Counting in Herrick and MarvellChapter 3: More Mine, Then Thine: Praise, “Praise,” and the Repetition of Value in Devotional PoetryChapter 4: She’s Dead: Metaphorical Work and Exemplary Mourning in Marvell, Hutchinson, and BradstreetChapter 5: Henceforth Thus Then: Explanation, Repetition, and Praise in Paradise LostConclusion: Time’s Up: Learning from PraiseNotesBibliography

“This is a book for our times. Its scholarship is exemplary, its close readings compelling, and its range of critical and theoretical reference impressive throughout.” —Catherine Bates, University of Warwick“Ryan Netzley has firmly established himself as one of the most interesting readers of early modern lyric poetry, and arguably the most provocative. Economies of Praise will further that reputation.”—James Kuzner, Brown University