Sixteenth-Century Poetry : An Annotated Anthology, Paperback / softback Book

Sixteenth-Century Poetry : An Annotated Anthology Paperback / softback

Edited by Gordon (University of Virginia, VA) Braden

Part of the Blackwell Annotated Anthologies series

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This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors. Includes complete works or substantial extracts of longer poems wherever possible, including Book III of the ‘Faerie Queene’ and the whole of ‘Astrophil and Stella’. Covers a range of genres, including the love lyric, mythological narrative, sacred poetry and political poetry. Encourages readers to discover unusual and interesting connections and contrasts between poems and poets. Detailed annotations facilitate close reading of the poems.

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