Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated AnthologyISBN: 978-1-4051-0115-8
Hardcover
604 pages
January 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.