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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate Edward Holberton "The Cromwellian Protectorate's instabilities helped to generate lively and innovative poetry. This new account of the period focuses on key cultural institutions - Parliament, an embassy to Sweden, … OL11877256W
The Oxford companion to Chaucer The Oxford companion to Chaucer Gray, Douglas "Nicknamed the Father of English Poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer has long inspired great writers, including Shakespeare. He continues to connect with contemporary audiences through his surprisingly modern d… OL18256273W
Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser Andrew Hadfield "The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description. OL19670324W
Autobiography and authorship in Renaissance verse Autobiography and authorship in Renaissance verse Elizabeth Heale "The advent of relatively cheap printed editions of verse in the mid-sixteenth century produced an explosion of verse, much of which represented the first-person speaker as a version of the author. T… OL1973801W
The development of the sonnet The development of the sonnet Michael R. G. Spiller Traces the development of the sonnet from its invention in the early Italian Renaissance to the time of John Milton, showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express lyrically … OL3338850W
Philip Sidney and the poetics of Renaissance cosmopolitanism Philip Sidney and the poetics of Renaissance cosmopolitanism Robert E. Stillman Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Robert E. Stillman explores … OL3527055W
Gerusalemme liberata Gerusalemme liberata Torquato Tasso translated into English Spenserian verse from the Italian of Tasso : together with a life of the author, interspersed with translations of his verses to the Princess Leonora of Este, and a list of En… OL502973W
Transforming the word Transforming the word Margery A. Kingsley "The radical prophets of the English civil wars were fascinating figures, living at the very margins of seventeenth-century English society. Combining a devout belief in the power of divine inspirati… OL6210957W