Early Modern English Poetry A Critical Companion

Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English Patrick Cheney, Garrett A. Sullivan, Professor of English Garrett A Sullivan — 2007

This text features 28 essays written by important international scholars on the major poems of the English Renaissance. It offers scholarship on subjects ranging from the invention of English verse, Petrarchism, pastoral, elegy, and satire, to women's religious verse, the place of homoeroticism and Cavalier poetry.