Sixteenth-Century Poetry : an Annotated Anthology
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
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Sixteenth-Century Poetry An Annotated Anthology; Contents; Selected Contents by Theme; Alphabetical List of Authors; Chronology of Poems and Historical Events; Introduction; Anonymous; John Skelton (1460?-1529); Sir Thomas More (1477-1535); Henry VIII (1491-1547); Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542); Thomas Vaux, Baron Vaux (1510-1556); Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547); Anne Askew (1521-1546); Psalm 130; Elizabeth I (1533-1603); Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567-1573); George Gascoigne (1534?-1577); Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536-1608). Barnabe Googe (1540-1594) and George Turberville (1544?-1597?)Sir Edward Dyer (1543-1606); Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550-1604); Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599); Sir Walter Ralegh (1554?-1618); Sir Walter Ralegh and Elizabeth I; Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628); Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586); Anonymous; Robert Greene (1558-1592); Chidiock Tichborne (1558?-1586); Thomas Lodge (1558?-1625); George Chapman (1559-1634); Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621); Robert