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Poetry and politics in the English Renaissance
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norbrook, David, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--History and criticism--Early modern, 1500-1700--Great Britain.
- English poetry.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Politics and literature--History--17th century--England.
- Political poetry, English--History and criticism.
- Political poetry, English.
- Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 327 p.)
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1984 I
- 1. The Utopia and Radical Humanism 6
- 2. The Reformation and Prophetic Poetry 28
- 3. The Shepheardes Calender: Prophecy and the Court 53
- 4. Sidney and Political Pastoral 82
- 5. The Faerie Queene and Elizabethan Politics 97
- 6. Voluntary Servitude: Fulke Greville and the Arts of Power 140
- 7. Jonson and theJacobean Peace, 603-1616 155
- 8. The Spenserians and KingJames, I603-I616 173
- 9. Crisis and Reaction, 1617-1628 199
- 10. The Politics of Milton's Early Poetry 224
- Afterword 2002 270.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191697647 (ebook) :
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