The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 (Penguin Classics)

by David Norbrook (Editor), David Norbrook (Introduction), David Norbrook (Introduction), David Norbrook (Editor), H. Woudhuysen (Editor), H. Woudhuysen (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1993

  $19.50

  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.