Poetry and politics in the English Renaissance
Renaissance English poetry was closely involved with affairs of state: some poets held high office, others wrote to influence those in power and to sway an increasingly independent public opinion. In this revised edition of his groundbreaking study, David Norbrook offers a clear account of the issues that engaged the passions of such leading figures as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton, and provides introductions to a host of neglected writers
Print Book, English, 2002
Rev. ed View all formats and editions
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xix, 327 pages ; 24 cm
9780199247189, 9780199247196, 0199247188, 0199247196
49991508
The Utopia and radical humanism
The reformation and prophetic poetry
The Shepheardes calender: prophecy and the court
Sidney and political pastoral
The Faerie queene and Elizabethan politics
Voluntary servitude: Fulke Greville and the arts of power
Jonson and the Jacobean peace, 1603-1616
The Spenserians and King James, 1603-1616
Crisis and reaction, 1617-1628
The politics of Milton's early poetry