The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509–1659
920 pages
|Published: 16 Mar 1992
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ISBN: 9780140423464
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 27 May 1993
Description
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.Selected and with an introduction by David Norbrook, and edited by H.R. Woudhuysen.