The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509 - 1659

David Norbrook (Selected with an Introduction by)

ISBN 10: 014042346X / ISBN 13: 9780140423464

Published by Penguin, London, 2003

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1st.thus. p/b (Penguin Classics). sl.creasing to covers. v.sl.dog-eared (last few pages only). pegs sl.browned, o/w internally vg. 920pp 920 p.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509 - 1659
• Publisher: Penguin, London
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014042346X
• ISBN 13: 9780140423464
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st.thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age—notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare and John Milton. Poems by less well-known writers also feature prominently—among them significant female poets such as Lady Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips. Compelling and exhilarating, this landmark collection illuminates a time of astonishing innovation, imagination and diversity.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About the Author

David Norbrook is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford and Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance (Routledge, 1984).

H. R. Woudhuysen is a lecturer in the Department of English at University College London. He has edited Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare for the New Penguin Shakespeare Library.