Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology
Book Details
Author(s)
Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405101164
ISBN-13
9781405101165
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Sales Rank
#1,307,839
Category
Literary Criticism
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United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
