A fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse. Features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors.
A fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse. Features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors.
Gordon Braden is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His previous publications include The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry (1978), Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition (1985), The Idea of the Renaissance (1989), and Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance (1999).
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Selected Contents by Theme.
Alphabetical list of authors.
Chronology.
Introduction.
John Skelton (1460?-1529).
Sir Thomas More (1477-1535).
Henry VIII (1491-1547).
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42).
Thomas Vaux, Baron Vaux (1510-56).
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47).
Anne Askew (1521-46).
Psalm 130.
George Gascoigne (1525?-77).
Elizabeth I (1533-1603).
Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536-1608).
Barnabe Googe (1540-94) and George Turberville (1544?-97?).
