The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Volume 4. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry

Author:   Catherine Bates (Research Professor, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick) ,  Patrick Cheney (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198830696


Pages:   688
Publication Date:   29 April 2022
Format:   Hardback
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The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Volume 4. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry


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The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesises existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the volumes.Sixteenth-Century British Poetry features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage. Featured are metre and form, figuration and allusiveness, and literary career, as well as a wide range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert. Major works discussed include Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and Shakespeare's Sonnets.

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Author:   Catherine Bates (Research Professor, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick) ,  Patrick Cheney (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.312kg
ISBN:  

9780198830696


ISBN 10:   0198830696
Pages:   688
Publication Date:   29 April 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney: Introduction I. Transitions and Contexts 2: Seth Lerer: Transitions 3: Andrew Hadfield: Social Contexts 4: Helen Smith: Professional Contexts II. Practices 5: Patrick Cheney: Poetics 6: Jeff Dolven: Style 7: Colin Burrow: Allusiveness 8: Hannah Crawforth: Figuration 9: Daniel Juan Gil: Career III. Forms 10: Tome MacFaul: Miscellany 11: Joseph Campana and Catherine Bates: Lyric 12: Chris Stamatakis: Sonnet 13: Michelle O'Callaghan: Satire 14: Helen Cooper: Pastoral 15: Tamsin Badcoe: Epic 16: Daniel Moss: Minor Epic 17: Philip Schwyzer: History 18: Andrea Brady: Elegy 19: Paul D. Stegner: Complaint 20: Claire McEachern: Devotional Poetry IV. Poets 21: Jane Griffiths: Skelton 22: Willy Maley and Theo van Heijnsbergen: Scots Poetry 23: Cathy Shrank: Wyatt and Surrey 24: Danielle Clarke: Mid-Tudor Poetry 25: Catherine Bates: Philip Sidney 26: Ayesha Ramachandran: Spenser: Shorter Poetry 27: Richard McCabe: Spenser: The Faerie Queen 28: Katherine Cleland: Daniel, Drayton, Chapman 29: Rachel Eisendrath: Marlowe 30: Dympna Callaghan: Shakespeare 31: Andrew Hiscock: Ralegh 32: Gillian Wright: Mary Sidney Herbert V. Transitions 33: Michael Schoenfeldt: The Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century

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Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. She was Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, before moving to Warwick in 1995. She specialises in the poetry and poetics of sixteenth-century English poetry, with a focus on lyric, epic, and romance. She has published five monographs on Renaissance literature, including Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser, and On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's 'Defence of Poesy'. She is editor of The Cambridge Companion to The Epic, and A Companion to Renaissance Poetry. Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, where he specialises in English Renaissance poetry and drama, with a focus on literary authorship. He has published seven monographs on Renaissance literature, including The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, and Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion. He is General Editor of the 14-volume Oxford History of Poetry in English.

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