The making and marketing of Tottel's Miscellany, 1557 : songs and sonnets in the summer of the martyrs' fires / J. Christopher Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, J. Christopher (James Christopher), 1961- author.

Series:

Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tottel, Richard, -1594. Miscellany.

Tottel, Richard.

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

English poetry.

Literature publishing--England--History--16th century.

Literature publishing.

Books--Great Britain--Marketing.

Books.

Reader-response criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in the summer of 1557 - as the protestant martyrs' pyres blazed across England - Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other' (more generally known as Tottel's Miscellany) is widely regarded as the first anthology of English poetry responsible for introducing Italianate verse forms to England. Yet those scholars who have paid attention to the book usually dismiss its literary quality and regard its chief accomplishment as paving the way for the Golden Age of Elizabethan verse to come. As Professor Warner makes clear,

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: From Printer to Reader; 1 "The workes of diuers Latines, Italians, and other"; 2 "To do as praiseworthely as the rest"; 3 "Thinke it not euill doon"; Postscript: "Moe hereafter"; Bibliography of Modern Works Cited; Index

Notes:

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-55588-3

1-317-02496-6

1-4094-5746-X

9781315555881

OCLC:

858763031