| Contents |
Inventing English verse / Susanne Woods -- Print, manuscripts, and miscellanies / Arthur F. Marotti -- Tudor and Stuart defenses of poetry / Peter C. Herman -- Wyatt, Surrey, and the Henrician Court / Catherine Bates -- Spenser's May eclogue and mid-Tudor religious poetry / John N. King -- Early courtier verse : Oxford, Dyer, and Gascoigne / Steven May -- Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Petrarchism / William J. Kennedy -- Spenserian pastoral / Bart van Es -- Spenser's poetry and the apocalypse / John Watkins -- Spenser, virginity, and sexuality / Elizabeth D. Harvey -- Raleigh, the Queen, and Elizabethan court poetry / William A. Oram -- Marlowe's erotic verse / Alan Sinfield -- Literary criticism, literary history, and the place of homoeroticism / Jonathan Goldberg -- "The phoenix and the turtle," Renaissance elegies, and the language of grief / Lynn Enterline -- Shakespeare's literary career and narrative poetry / Patrick Cheney -- Shakespeare's Sonnets and English sonnet sequences / Sasha Roberts -- Mary Sidney Herbert and women's religious verse / Danielle Clarke -- Lady Mary Wroth and women's love poetry / Naomi J. Miller -- Donne's Songs and sonets and artistic identity / Andrew Hadfield -- Satire and the politics of town / Andrew McRae -- Donne's religious poetry and the trauma of grace / Achsah Guibbory -- Lanyer and the poetry of land and devotion / Helen Wilcox -- Jonson, King, and Court / Julie Sanders -- George Herbert, God, and King / Michael Schoenfeldt -- Crashaw and religious bias in the literary canon / Lowell Gallagher -- Cavalier poetry and civil war / Laura Lunger Knoppers -- Marvell and pastoral / Thomas Healy -- Milton, the nativity ode, the companion poems, and Lycidas / Barbara K. Lewalski. |
| Abstract |
This text features 28 essays written by important international scholars on the major poems of the English Renaissance. It offers scholarship on subjects ranging from the invention of English verse, Petrarchism, pastoral, elegy, and satire, to women's religious verse, the place of homoeroticism and Cavalier poetry. |
