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Michael Bryson et al., « 9. Love and its Costs in Seventeenth-Century Literature », Open Book Publishers
The theme of love as resistance to authority is transformed and amplified in the lyric poetry of John Donne and Robert Herrick. In work filled with a sense of the fragility and shortness of life, these poets contribute to an ethos that has come to be known by the name carpe diem, a phrase made famous by Horace, “who in Ode, I. xi, tells his mistress that […] life is short, so they must ‘enjoy the day’, for they do not know if there will be a tomorrow”. Horace’s line, “carpe diem quam minimum credula...