Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195153871 ISBN 13: 9780195153873

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2006

Synopsis

Early Modern English Poetry provides an accessible introduction to a key selection of canonical poetic works in English and to historical and cultural topics that illuminate them.

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Review

An exceptionally useful collection of introductory essays ... most of the contributors accomplish their brief with a seemingly effortless clarity and elegance...In a period when students are often nervous of reading poetry and particularly frightened by early modern texts, this volume may make a significant contribution to introducing a new generation to the extraordinary poetic riches of the period. (Elizabeth Heale, Modern Language Review)

offers important cultural background and a widening of the usual scope of reference whilst delivering, in many cases, fresh analyses of poets familiar to the Early modern canon. (Elizabeth Clarke, The Review of English Studies)

Synopsis

Early Modern English Poetry features twenty-eight original essays written especially for this volume by important international scholars on the major poems of the English Renaissance. The typical essay in this volume was written with two goals in mind: to provide readers with a distinctive and illuminating analysis of a key early modern work; and to introduce students to an important topic of early modern culture. The volume also offers groundbreaking scholarship on subjects ranging from the intervention of English verse, Petrarchism, pastoral, elegy, and satire, to women's religious verse, the politics of town, the place of homoeroticism, and Cavalier poetry. Early Modern English Poetry serves as an accessible introduction both to a key range of canonical poetic works in English and to historical and cultural topics that help illuminate those works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195153871
• ISBN 13: 9780195153873
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Cheney Patrick