Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of
individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical
context in which they were written. Informative and original, this
book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand,
enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. * Close reading
of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and
non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript
culture, across the major literary modes and genres * Poems read
within their historical context, with reference to five major
cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the
modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific
revolution * Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey,
Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary
Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare * Presents a separate study
of all five of Shakespeare s major poems - Venus and Adonis, The
Rape of Lucrece, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A
Lover's Complaint- in the context of his dramatic career *
Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle,
Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe
Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler
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