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• A revised edition of Norbrook's groundbreaking book of 1984 (Routledge), with new introduction, supplementary material, and updated footnotes.
• An exceptionally important contribution to interdisciplinary studies of early modern culture, historical and literary.
• Praised by eminent historians and literary critics, including Christopher Hill, Blair Worden, Katherine Eisaman Maus, and Frank Kermode - who wrote of the book's 'decisive effect on our thinking about the poetry of the English Renaissance' (TLS)
• An invaluable basis for the study of poets such as Sidney, Spenser, Fulke Greville, Jonson, and Milton, in the context of their times.

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Review from previous edition: 'He aims to correct the distortions of history we have all inherited, and in bringing off that ambition he has written a book of exceptional interest. Nothing he discusses will be quite the same again. . . . This bold, finely researched and well-written book should have a decisive effect on our thinking about the poetry of the English Renaissance."--Frank Kermode, Times Literary Supplement

"'valuable insistence on political content . . . Norbrook is far too subtle a critic to imagine that his writers used art merely as a vehicle for political opinions.'"--Blair Worden, London Review of Books

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