English poetry and prose, 1540-1674
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English poetry and prose, 1540-1674
（The Penguin history of literature, v. 2）
Penguin, 1993
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Origilally published: London : Sphere Books, 1970
Bibliography: p. [413]-450
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The essays in this volume are intended to give a modern reader a sense of the many contexts within which literature exists. The particular angle or emphasis is the contributor's choice. Thus Spenser's work is discussed in relation to his life and times; Shakespeare's sonnets are explored as transforming a specific genre; while Marvell is read in the context of the Caroline circle. Writers such as Sidney, Donne and Milton are discussed in more than one context. There are substantial chapters on genres, such as the epyllion or minor epic, the lyric and the prose of the period, as well as chapters on individual writers, and there is a bibliography and a table of dates. Published in ten volumes, "The Penguin History of Literature" is a critical survey of English and American literature covering 14 centuries, from the Anglo-Saxons to the present.
Table of Contents
- Wyatt and Surrey, Patricia Thomson
- Sir Philip Sidney, David Kalstone
- Spenser, Millar MacLure
- the epyllion, Elizabeth Story Donno
- Shakespeare and the Sonnet sequence, Thomas P. Roche
- the lyric - "The Poetry", Alicia Ostriker, "Poetry and Song", Leslie Dunn
- Ben Jonson and the court, J.C.A. Rathmell
- the poetry of John Donne, A.J. Smith
- George Herbert and the religious lyric, Robert Ellrodt
- Andrew Marvell and the Caroline poets, Maren-Sofie Rostvig
- Milton - "Poems" (1645), Christopher Ricks, "Paradise Lost", John M. Steadman, "Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes", Christopher Ricks
- Samuel Butler and the minor restoration poets, Rachel Trickett
- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-Century prose, John Carey - "Prose Before Elizabeth", "Elizabethen Prose", "Seventeenth-Century Prose".
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