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A genre popular in early 17th century England, in which the poet compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house. It may be regarded as a sub-set of the Topographical poem. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
The most famous country house poems are:
Ben Jonson's To Penshurst, published 1616, which compliments Robert Sidney, younger brother of Sir Philip Sidney on his Penshurst Place. The poem is full of classical allusions, to Martial and Horace, among others, and begins with the following lines alluding to Horace's Ode 2:18: "Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold; Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told, Or stair, or courts; but stand’st an ancient pile, And these grudged at, art reverenced the while." This poem became the model for subsequent country house poems. Benjamin Jonson (circa June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. ...
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (November 19, 1563 – July 13, 1626), second son of Sir Henry Sidney, was a statesman of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. ...
Philip Sidney Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 - October 17, 1586) became one of the Elizabethan Ages most prominent figures. ...
The Great Hall at Penshurst Place, ca. ...
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Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. ...
Ode is a form of stately and elaborate lyrical verse. ...
However, Emilia Lanier's Description of Cookham was in fact published earlier, in 1611, as a dedicatory verse at the end of her long narrative poem Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. In the Description of Cookham, Lanier pays tribute to her patroness Margaret, Duchess of Cumberland through a description of her country seat as a paradise for literary women. Aemilia Lanyer, or Emilia Lanier (1569-1645) was the first Englishwoman to assert herself as a professional poet through her single volume of poems, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611). ...
Andrew Marvell's Upon Appleton House, which describes Thomas, Lord Fairfax's country house, where Marvell was a tutor between November 1650 and the end of 1652. The poem centres on Lord Fairfax's daughter Mary. Andrew Marvell (March 31, 1621 – August 16, 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, and the son of an Anglican clergyman. ...
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron (January 17, 1612 - November 12, 1671), parliamentary general and commander-in-chief during the English Civil War, the eldest son of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Baron Fairfax of Cameron, was born at Denton, near Otley, Yorkshire. ...
Thomas Carew wrote two country house poems in the mould of To Penshurst: To Saxham and To My Friend G. N., from Wrest. Thomas Carew (pronounced Carey) (1595 - 1645?) was an English poet. ...
Even closer to the Jonsonian paradigm is a poem by the oldest Son of Ben, Robert Herrick, A Panegyric to Sir Lewis Pemberton. The phrase Sons of Ben is a mildly problematic term applied to followers of Benamor the Great. ...
Robert Herrick (baptized August 24, 1591 - October 1674) was a 17th century English poet. ...
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Bibliography - G. R. Hibbard: The Country House Poem in the Seventeenth Century (1956)
- William McClung: The Country House in English Renaissance Poetry (1977)
- Hugh Jenkins: Feigned Commonwealths, the Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community (1998, ISBN 0-8207-0292-7)
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