The Happy Man: 1600-1700

Abraham Cowley Andrew Marvell beatus ille-philosophy beatus ille-themes beatus vir Boethius Casimire's classical beatus Countess of Winchilsea court Cowley's delight Denham divine doth Dryden Earl earth ease Edward Benlowes English poets Epicurean Epicurus epigram epistle epode essay Fane Fane's garden garden poems Georgics Golden Age grove Habington Henry Vaughan Hermetic Hills Horace Horace's second epode Hortulan Saint Ibid ideas influence innocence interpretation John John Evelyn joys Lady Chudleigh landscape of retirement lines London Lucretian Lucretius lyric Marvell Marvell's meditation Milton mind moral motif mystic Nahum Tate nature neo-Platonic neo-Stoic Norris Nunappleton obscurity Odes of Casimire op.cit paraphrase peace philosophy of retirement pleasures poem poetic poetry popularity praise Puritan quiet religious Restoration Royalist rural retirement Sarbiewski Serene Contemplator seventeenth century shade solitary solitude soul stanzas Stoic Stoical sweet theme of retirement Theophila Thomas thought tradition translation verse Virgil's virtue William William Habington