Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology

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Gordon Braden
John Wiley & Sons, 15/04/2008 - 608 páginas
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.

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Anonymous
1
John Skelton 1460?1529
3
Sir Thomas More 14771535
39
Henry VIII 14911547
40
Sir Thomas Wyatt 15031542
41
Thomas Vaux Baron Vaux 15101556
64
Henry Howard Earl of Surrey 15171547
66
Anne Askew 15211546
78
Anonymous
401
Robert Greene 15581592
405
Chidiock Tichborne 1558 ?1586
407
Thomas Lodge 1558?1625
408
George Chapman 15591634
430
Mary Herbert Countess of Pembroke 15611621
459
Robert Southwell 15611595
462
Samuel Daniel 15621619
463

Psalm 130
80
Elizabeth I 15331603
86
Isabella Whitney fl 15671573
88
George Gascoigne 1534?1577
91
Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset 15361608
119
Barnabe Googe 15401594 and George Turberville 1544?1597?
133
Sir Edward Dyer 15431606
136
Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford 15501604
138
Edmund Spenser 1552?1599
139
Sir Walter Ralegh 1554?1618
327
Sir Walter Ralegh and Elizabeth I
337
Fulke Greville Lord Brooke 15541628
339
Sir Philip Sidney 15541586
347
Michael Drayton 15631631
484
Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester 15631626
487
Christopher Marlowe 15641593
488
Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Ralegh
509
Thomas Nashe 15671601
511
Sir John Davies 15691626
513
Barnabe Barnes 15711609
514
John Donne 15721631
515
Richard Barnfield 15741627
550
John Marston 15761634
552
Anonymous
562
Index of Titles and First Lines
564
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Gordon Braden is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His previous publications include The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry (1978), Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition (1985), The Idea of the Renaissance (1989), and Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance (1999).

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