The Later Renaissance in England: Nondramatic Verse and Prose, 1600-1660

Baker, Hershel

ISBN 10: 0395160383 / ISBN 13: 9780395160381

Published by Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1975

About this Item

A good copy without its dust jacket. This copy has some light wear around its edges. Some pages have small corner creases and a few have larger creases due to the thin bible paper used. Pages are free of notes or highlighting. Some toning to outer edges and end papers.

Seller Inventory # 2101

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Later Renaissance in England: Nondramatic Verse and Prose, 1600-1660
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, New York
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395160383
• ISBN 13: 9780395160381
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction
  • NonFiction

About this title

Synopsis

The most extensive collection of its kind available! The period from the accession of James I in 1603 to the restoration of his grandson Charles II in 1660, or from the death of Spenser to Dryden's emergence as a writer, was a time when doctors wrote about religion, politicians doubled as historians, divines were men of letters, and everybody had an opinion about politics. This extensive collection of writings, painstakingly examined in their earliest printed or manuscript sources and compiled by the late Herschel Baker, provides reliable texts for a generous sampling of the nondramatic literary activity of a period rich in writers great and small. Baker fully immerses readers into a period of exciting and important literary expression, believing that representing only the giants of this momentous time-Andrewes, Donne, Taylor, Clarendon, Bacon, or Hobbes-gives a very partial view of an age conspicuous for its conflict and diversity.

From the Publisher

Title of related interest from Waveland Press: Mahoney, The English Romantics: Major Poetry and Critical Theory (ISBN 0881339571).