Smallpox in seventeenth-century English literature: reality and the metamorphosis of wit.
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When smallpox claimed the only son of the sixth Earl of Huntingdon on 24 June 1649, the death of Henry, Lord Hastings was commemorated in a fashionable volume of elegies. Among the contributions to Lachrymae musarum by "diverse persons of Nobility and Worth", Andrew Marvell's tribute to the young Huntingdon heir is certainly the most intriguing and those ofJohn Denham and Robert Herrick rank with the most polished, but none has gained the notoriety of the poem written by John Dryden. This studied, uneven imitation of classical and metaphysical elegy has often been singled out for its infamous description of the fatal disease:
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 33 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1989