The Happy Man: 1600-1700

Abraham Cowley ambition Andrew Marvell Aphra Behn beatus ille motifs beatus ille tradition beatus vir Ben Jonson Benlowes Boethius Canto Casimire Casimire's Ode Christ classical beatus contemplation Countess of Winchilsea court Cowley's creation delight Denham desire divine doth Dryden Edward Benlowes English enjoy Epicurean Epicurus epigram epistle Epode essay Fairfax Fane Fane's garden Georgics Happy Heaven Henry Vaughan Hermetic Horace Horace's second Epode Horatian ode Hortulan Saint husbandman Ibid ideas imitation innocence interpretation John joys landscape of retirement lines London Lucretian Lucretius lyric Marvell Marvell's poem Milton mind moral mystic Nahum Tate Nature neo-Stoic Neoplatonic Norris Paradise paraphrase passage passions peace philosophy Pindaric Platonic pleasures poetic poetry poets praise quiet religious Restoration rural retirement rural scene Sarbiewski Serene shade solitary solitude soul spiritual stanza Stoic sweet thee theme Theophila things Thomas tion translation trees true Virgil virtue William Habington wise