Renaissance poetry and prose / June Waudby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waudby, June.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

York notes companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English literature.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English poetry.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

England.

History.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Renaissance--England.

Renaissance.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

iv, 357 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman ; London : York Press, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction

A cultural overview

Texts, writers and contexts. The sonnet and amatory verse: Wyatt, Philip Sidney and Shakespeare; extended commentary: Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (1598); the Renaissance Epyllion: Lodge, Shakespeare and Marlowe; extended commentary: Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593); Pastoral to epic: Spenser, Marvell and Milton; extended commentary: Spenser, The faerie queene (1590/6), Book III; Religious verse: Locke, Mary Sidney and Donne; extended commentary: Locke, A meditation (1560); Humanist prose and rhetoric: More, Philip Sidney, Wilson and Puttenham; extended commentary: More, Utopia (1516), Book II; Life guides, Mother's advice and conduct books: Castiglione, Hoby and Whately; extended commentary: Castiglione, The book of the courtier (1528), Book III

Critical theories and debates. City, court and country; The woman debate; Exploration and new worlds; religious works and controversy

References and resources

Timeline

Further reading.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781408204788

1408204789

OCLC:

663820394