The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse
Author: H. Woudhuysen
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-05-26
Total Pages: 1400
ISBN-13: 014191386X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.