When late seventeenth-century readers wanted to inform themselves about happenings at the centres of power and fashion they had no newspapers or gossip columns
The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impotency poem as a
Monarchical government in the later 17th century was a political fact of life and remains central to an understanding of the period. The subject of this book is