The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century VerseOxford University Press, 1991 - 769 páginas In the sixty years since we published the original Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse, a revolution in literary taste has taken place. We now know that Elizabethan literature contained much more than dainty pastorals and lovely sonnets, and that in fact many poetic traditions flourished within the sixteenth century. Now, Emrys Jones has brought together a definitive collection of verse which truly captures the diversity of this period. By no means have the classics of Elizabethan literature been replaced--there are ample selections from Spenser's Faerie Queen, from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays (including Ariel's song from The Tempest: "Full fathom five thy father lies..."), and from John Donne (who actually produced many poems in the sixteenth century, although he has previously been thought of only as a poet of the next century). But alongside these well-known works, Jones has placed a vast array of other significant poems--from the early part of the century (when poets such as John Skelton still harkened back to Chaucer and feudal times) to the great Elizabethan period (when it seems everybody, including the Queen, was writing admirable verse). Managing both to be inclusive and to maintain the high literary standards of the earlier collection, The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse (with its engaging and informative introduction, and its copious footnotes which gloss unfamiliar words) conveys in unparalleled style all the richness of what is arguably the greatest century of English literature. |
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... live all day , to lie here at night ? As losels , mighty beggars and vagabonds , And truants that walk over the londs , Michers , hedge - creepers , fillocks , and lusks , That all the summer keep ditches and busks , Loitering , and ...
... live all day , to lie here at night ? As losels , mighty beggars and vagabonds , And truants that walk over the londs , Michers , hedge - creepers , fillocks , and lusks , That all the summer keep ditches and busks , Loitering , and ...
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... live in heart so glad WHO can live in heart so glad As the merry country lad ? Who upon a fair green balk May at pleasure sit and walk . And amid the azure skies See the morning sun arise ; While he hears in every spring How the birds ...
... live in heart so glad WHO can live in heart so glad As the merry country lad ? Who upon a fair green balk May at pleasure sit and walk . And amid the azure skies See the morning sun arise ; While he hears in every spring How the birds ...
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... live , and as he pulls me down mount higher . ( Pub . before 1599 ) The Passionate Shepherd to his Love COME live with me , and be my love , And we will all the pleasures prove , That valleys , groves , hills and fields , Woods , or ...
... live , and as he pulls me down mount higher . ( Pub . before 1599 ) The Passionate Shepherd to his Love COME live with me , and be my love , And we will all the pleasures prove , That valleys , groves , hills and fields , Woods , or ...
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JOHN SKELTON c 14601529 | 1 |
To Mistress Margaret Hussey | 2 |
My darling dear my daisy flower | 3 |
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