Early Modern English Poetry
A Critical Companion
ISBN13: 9780195153873ISBN10: 0195153871
Paperback, 368 pages
Aug 2006,
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Early Modern English Poetry provides an accessible introduction to a key selection of canonical poetic works in English and to historical and cultural topics that illuminate them.
Table of Contents
Contents: Thematic and Generic
Preface
Select Chronology, 1503-1681
Introduction: Reading Renaissance Poetry
1. Inventing English Verse
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2. Print, Manuscripts, and Miscellanies
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3. Tudor and Stuart Defenses of Poetry
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4. Wyatt, Surrey, and the Henrician Court
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5. Spenser's May Eclogue and Mid-Tudor Religious Poetry
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6. Early Courtier Verse: Oxford, Dyer, and Gascoigne
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7. Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Petrarchism
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8. Spenserian Pastoral
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9. Spenser's Poetry and the Apocalypse
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10. Spenser, Virginity, and Sexuality
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11. Raleigh, the Queen, and Elizabethan Court Poetry
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12. Marlowe's Erotic Verse
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13. Literary Criticism, Literary History, and the Place of Homoeroticism
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14. "The Phoenix and the Turtle," Renaissance Elegies, and the Language of Grief
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15. Shakespeare's Literary Career and Narrative Poetry
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16. Shakespeare's Sonnets and English Sonnet Sequences
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17. Mary Sidney Herbert and Women's Religious Verse
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18. Lady Mary Wroth and Women's Love Poetry
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19. Donne's Songs and Sonets and Artistic Identity
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20. Satire and the Politics of Town
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21. Donne's Religious Poetry and the Trauma of Grace
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22. Lanyer and the Poetry of Land and Devotion
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23. Jonson, King, and Court
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24. Herbert, God, and King
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25. Crashaw and Religious Bias in the Literary Canon
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26. Cavalier Poetry and Civil War
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27. Marvell and Pastoral
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28. Milton, the Nativity Ode, the Companion Poems, and Lycidas
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Notes on Contributors
Index
