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This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions
about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly
codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only
emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as
fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in
the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions. Drawing
from book history and relying on close reading and textual
criticism, this collection offers a more nuanced account of the
history of the sonnet. It discusses how sonnets were written,
published and received in England as compared to mainland Europe,
and explores the works of major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and
minor (Barnes, Harvey) poets alike. Reflecting on current editorial
practices, it also provides the first modern edition of an early
seventeenth-century Elizabethan miscellany including sonnets
presumably by Sidney and Spenser. -- .
This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions
about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly
codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only
emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as
fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in
the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions. Drawing
from book history and relying on close reading and textual
criticism, this collection offers a more nuanced account of the
history of the sonnet. It discusses how sonnets were written,
published and received in England as compared to mainland Europe,
and explores the works of major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and
minor (Barnes, Harvey) poets alike. Reflecting on current editorial
practices, it also provides the first modern edition of an early
seventeenth-century Elizabethan miscellany including sonnets
presumably by Sidney and Spenser. -- .
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