English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection Of Shorter Poems From Skelton To Jonson - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1258250071 ISBN 13: 9781258250072

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012

Synopsis

English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection Of Shorter Poems From Skelton To Jonson is a book edited by John Williams that contains a selection of shorter poems from the English Renaissance period. The book includes works from a range of poets, including John Skelton, Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and others. The poems cover a variety of themes, including love, nature, politics, and religion. The collection is intended to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the poetry of the English Renaissance, which is considered one of the most important periods in the history of English literature. The book is suitable for scholars, students, and general readers who are interested in the poetry of this period. It includes an introduction by the editor, as well as annotations and notes to help readers understand the context and meaning of the poems. Overall, English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection Of Shorter Poems From Skelton To Jonson is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the literature of this important period in English history.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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John Williams chose well, and framed his choices with clear and concise commentaries. A lifetime cannot exhaust the pleasures of this anthology that distills the most vigorous age of English lyricism. As a guide and a companion it is indispensable. Geoffrey O Brien"

In the beginning, for many poets and readers, there are anthologies. They often provide our earliest source for poems. . . . For me, the most valuable anthology eventually became, and remains, this one: John Williams s English Renaissance Poetry. Robert Pinsky, from the Introduction
John Williams chose well, and framed his choices with clear and concise commentaries. A lifetime cannot exhaust the pleasures of this anthology that distills the most vigorous age of English lyricism. As a guide and a companion it is indispensable. Geoffrey O Brien
The pithy and insightful page-long biographies are well worth pausing to read; then there is verse from 23 poets, as well as a selection of English madrigals, and I ve barely found a duff line This isn t just an anthology of ancient verse. It s a manual on how to write poetry that has the force, in Thomas Wyatt s resonant phrase, of having been not just written in ink, but 'graven with diamonds, in letters plain.'" Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian"

"In the beginning, for many poets and readers, there are anthologies. They often provide our earliest source for poems. . . . For me, the most valuable anthology eventually became, and remains, this one: John Williams's English Renaissance Poetry." --Robert Pinsky, from the Introduction
"John Williams chose well, and framed his choices with clear and concise commentaries. A lifetime cannot exhaust the pleasures of this anthology that distills the most vigorous age of English lyricism. As a guide and a companion it is indispensable." --Geoffrey O'Brien
"The pithy and insightful page-long biographies are well worth pausing to read; then there is verse from 23 poets, as well as a selection of English madrigals, and I've barely found a duff line... This isn't just an anthology of ancient verse. It's a manual on how to write poetry that has the force, in Thomas Wyatt's resonant phrase, of having been not just written in ink, but 'graven with diamonds, in letters plain.'" --Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

About the Author

John Williams (1922-1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. Despite a talent for writing and acting, he flunked out of a local junior college after his first year. He reluctantly joined the war effort, enlisting in the Army Air Corps, and managed to write a draft of his first novel while there. Once home, Williams found a small publisher for the novel and enrolled at the University of Denver, where he was eventually to receive both his BA and MA, and where he was to return as an instructor in 1954.
He remained on the staff of the creative writing program at the University of Denver until his retirement in 1985. During these years, he was an active guest lecturer and writer, editing an anthology of English Renaissance poetry and publishing two volumes of his own poems, as well as three novels: Butcher's Crossing, Stoner, and the National Book Award-winning Augustus (all published as NYRB Classics).
Robert Pinsky's recent books are his Selected Poems (2011) and the anthology-manifesto Singing School (2015). As U.S. Poet Laureate (1997-2000), Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project, with a growing video library at www.favoritepoem.org of Americans of various professions and ages reading aloud and commenting on poems by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Shakespeare, and others. His new book of poems is At the Foundling Hospital (2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1258250071
• ISBN 13: 9781258250072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 398
• Editor: Williams Professor John