Publisher's Synopsis
Early Modern English Poetry features twenty-eight original essays written especially for this volume by important international scholars on the major poems of the English Renaissance. The typical essay in this volume was written with two goals in mind: to provide readers with a distinctive and illuminating analysis of a key early modern work; and to introduce students to an important topic of early modern culture. The volume also offers groundbreaking scholarship on subjects ranging from the intervention of English verse, Petrarchism, pastoral, elegy, and satire, to women's religious verse, the politics of town, the place of homoeroticism, and Cavalier poetry. Early Modern English Poetry serves as an accessible introduction both to a key range of canonical poetic works in English and to historical and cultural topics that help illuminate those works.
