Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry

Robert C. Evans

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781472508676
• eBook ISBN: 9781472507013
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Literaturkritik

Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period. Each chapter covers a major figure in Early Modern poetry and explores two different poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including: - Classical
- Formalist
- Psychoanalytic
- Marxist
- Structuralist
- Reader-response
- New Historicist
- Ecocritical
- Multicultural Poets covered include: Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Anne Vaughan Lock, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Aemilia Lanyer, Martha Moulsworth, Lady Mary Wroth, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, John Milton and Katherine Philips.

Table of contents

• Cover
• HalfTitle
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Sir Walter Ralegh (1552–1616): “What Is Our Life?”
• 1 Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42):
• 2 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–47):
• 3 Anne Vaughan Locke (1534?–after 1590):
• 4 Sir Philip Sidney (1554–86):
• 5 Edmund Spenser (1552–99):
• 6 Christopher Marlowe (1564–93):
• 7 William Shakespeare (1564–1616):
• 8 John Donne (1572–1631):
• 9 Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645):
• 10 Ben Jonson (1572–1637):
• 11 Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1651/3):
• 12 George Herbert (1593–1633):
• 13 Robert Herrick (1591–1674):
• 14 Katherine Philips (1632–64):
• 15 Andrew Marvell (1621–78):
• 16 John Milton (1608–74):
• AfterwordCritical pluralism: “A CONTEMPLATION ON BASSETS-DOWN-HILL” BY ANNE KEMP
• Appendix: The kinds of questions different critics ask
• Bibliography
• Further reading
• Index