English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century

English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century
Author: Gary F. Waller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317895584

Explores the poetry of the Renaissance, from Dunbar in the late 15th century to the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne in the early 17th. The book offers more than the wealth of literature discussed: it is a pioneering work in its own right, bringing the insights of contemporary literary and cultural theory to an overview of the period.

Early Modern English Poetry

Early Modern English Poetry
Author: Patrick Cheney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This text features 28 essays written by important international scholars on the major poems of the English Renaissance. It offers scholarship on subjects ranging from the invention of English verse, Petrarchism, pastoral, elegy, and satire, to women's religious verse, the place of homoeroticism and Cavalier poetry.

English Sixteenth-century Verse

English Sixteenth-century Verse
Author: Richard Standish Sylvester
Publisher: New York : Norton
Total Pages: 624
Release: 1974
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780393302066

This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and others. The selections - which include such works as 'The Steele Glas'. Richard S. Sylvester examines the evolution of English poetry through the century, tracing the development of the early Tudor poets through the eloquence of Surrey. English Sixteenth-century Verse provides a basic text for the poetry of the period.

Sixteenth-Century Poetry

Sixteenth-Century Poetry
Author: Gordon Braden
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0470997192

This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors. Includes complete works or substantial extracts of longer poems wherever possible, including Book III of the ‘Faerie Queene’ and the whole of ‘Astrophil and Stella’. Covers a range of genres, including the love lyric, mythological narrative, sacred poetry and political poetry. Encourages readers to discover unusual and interesting connections and contrasts between poems and poets. Detailed annotations facilitate close reading of the poems.

English Alliterative Verse

English Alliterative Verse
Author: Eric Weiskott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107169658

A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

Seventeenth-century British Poetry, 1603-1660

Seventeenth-century British Poetry, 1603-1660
Author: John Peter Rumrich
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 999
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780393979985

Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition.