Title:
Renaissance poetry and prose / June Waudby.
Author:
Waudby, June.
Publication Information:
Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman ; London : York Press, 2010.
Call Number:
PR411 .W38 2010
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781408204788
Series:
York notes companions
York notes companions.
Physical Description:
iv, 357 p. ; 21 cm.
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Contents:
Introduction -- A cultural overview -- Texts, writers and contexts. The sonnet and amatory verse: Wyatt, Philip Sidney and Shakespeare; extended commentary: Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (1598); the Renaissance Epyllion: Lodge, Shakespeare and Marlowe; extended commentary: Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593); Pastoral to epic: Spenser, Marvell and Milton; extended commentary: Spenser, The faerie queene (1590/6), Book III; Religious verse: Locke, Sidney and Donne; extended commentary: Locke, A meditation (1560); Humanist prose and rhetoric: More, Philip Sidney, Wilson and Puttenham; extended commentary: More, Utopia (1516), Book II; Life guides, Mother's advice and conduct books: Castiglione, Hoby and Whately; extended commentary: Castiglione, The book of the courtier (1528), Book III -- Critical theories and debates. City, court and country; The woman debate; Exploration and new worlds; religious works and controversy -- References and resources -- Timeline -- Further reading.
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