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Excerpt from The Elizabethan Lyric: A Study
Since there is no real end to the development of the Elizabethan lyric, it was necessary to limit this study by an arbitrary date, and the death of Shak spere, in 1616, is taken as a convenient stopping place. Some familiar lyrists, usually considered as late Elizabethans, are here omitted; in each case their absence seems to the author justified by the limits of the book. Donne, for example, is omitted because the spirit of his verse illustrates the seven teenth century rather than the sixteenth, and any adequate consideration of him would involve a discussion of the metaphysicians.
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