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Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology

Gordon Braden (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0116-5
Paperback
608 pages
January 2005, ©2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors.

* Includes complete works or substantial extracts of longer poems wherever possible, including Book III of the 'Faerie Queene' and the whole of 'Astrophil and Stella'.

* Covers a range of genres, including the love lyric, mythological narrative, sacred poetry and political poetry.

* Encourages readers to discover unusual and interesting connections and contrasts between poems and poets.

* Detailed annotations facilitate close reading of the poems.