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

Herschel Baker

ISBN 10: 0881338427 / ISBN 13: 9780881338423

Published by Waveland Pr Inc, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Later Renaissance in England: Nondramatic Verse and Prose, 1600-1660
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881338427
• ISBN 13: 9780881338423
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.

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