The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Woudhuysen, H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014042346X ISBN 13: 9780140423464

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1993

Synopsis

The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age - notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare and John Milton. Poems by less well-known writers also feature prominently - among them significant female poets such as Lady Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips. Compelling and exhilarating, this landmark collection illuminates a time of astonishing innovation, imagination and diversity.

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About the Author

David Norbrook is Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford and Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance (Routledge, 1984).

H. R. Woudhuysen is a lecturer in the Department of English at University College London. He has edited Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare for the New Penguin Shakespeare Library.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014042346X
• ISBN 13: 9780140423464
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 976
• Editor: Norbrook David, Woudhuysen H.