Perspectives on Renaissance poetry / Robert C. Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Robert C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

Renaissance--England.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Summary:

"Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period. Each chapter covers a major figure in Early Modern poetry and explores two different poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including: - Classical - Formalist - Psychoanalytic - Marxist - Structuralist - Reader-response - New Historicist - Ecocritical - Multicultural Poets covered include: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Anne Vaughan Locke, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Aemilia Lanyer, Martha Moulsworth, Lady Mary Wroth, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, and Katherine Philips."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sir Walter Ralegh (1552

1616): "What Is Our Life?"

1. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503

42): "They fl ee from me"; "My lute, awake!"

2. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517

47): "Love, that doth reign and live within my thought"; "Th'Assyrians' king, in peace with foul desire"

3. Anne Vaughan Locke (1534?

after 1590): "And then not daring with presuming eye"; "Have mercy, God, for thy great mercy's sake"

4. Sir Philip Sidney (1554

86): Astrophil and Stella 5 ("It is most true"); Astrophil and Stella 71 ("Who will in fairest book")

5. Edmund Spenser (1552

99): Amoretti 68 ("Most glorious Lord of life"); Amoretti 75 ("One day I wrote her name"); The Faerie Queene , I.i-ii

6. Christopher Marlowe (1564

93): "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; "Hero and Leander" (excerpt)

7. William Shakespeare (1564

1616): Sonnets 3 and 147; "Venus and Adonis" (excerpt)

8. John Donne (1572

1631): "The Flea"; "Holy Sonnet 14"

9. Aemilia Lanyer (1569

1645): "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" (excerpt); "The Description of Cookham" (excerpt)

10. Ben Jonson (1572

1637): "On My First Son"; "To Penshurst" (excerpt)

11. Lady Mary Wroth (1587

1651/3): "Like to the Indians"; Martha Moulsworth (1577

1646): "The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow" (excerpt)

12. George Herbert (1593

1633): "Redemption"; "The Collar"

13. Robert Herrick (1591

1674): "Corinna's Going A-Maying"; "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"

14. Katherine Philips (1632

64): "Upon the Double Murder of King Charles"; "Friendship's Mystery"

15. Andrew Marvell (1621

78): "To His Coy Mistress"; "The Mower against Gardens"

16. John Milton (1608

74): "Lycidas" (excerpt); Paradise Lost, Book 12 (excerpt)

Afterword: Critical Pluralism: "A Contemplation on Bassets-down-Hill" by Anne Kemp

Appendix: The Kinds of Questions Different Critics Ask Christina M. Garner

Bibliography

Further Reading

Index of Theories and Applications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472507013

1472507010

9781474218825

1474218822

OCLC:

919459834