Natural Magic: Studies in the Presentation of Nature in English Poetry from Spenser to Marvell.

Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small tears to jacket. Pages unmarked. viii, 196 p., plates, 22 cm. "This book discusses certain aspects of European sensibility in its responses to the universe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and presents several English poems of the period devoted to the natural world, some of them commonly overlooked and never reprinted, some better known, like Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House', with the kind of commentary which relates them to contemporary currents of taste and literary habits. It is profusely illustrated from emblem-books." - Clarendon Press.