| Description |
xiv, 655 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The value of poetry in education / Sir Thomas Elyot -- Epitaph on Wyatt / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- An English rhetoric / Thomas Wilson -- Tragedy and God's judgements / Alexander Neville -- Death of the poet Collingbourne / William Baldwin -- On imitation / Roger Ascham -- A primer of English poetry / George Gascoigne -- The morality of comedy / George Whetstone -- Pastoral poetry revived and explained / Edmund Spenser and E.K. -- English poetics and rhetoric / George Puttenham -- Allegory and the chivalric epic / Edmund Spenser -- An apology for Ariosto : poetry, epic, morality / Sir John Harington -- How to write love poetry / William Shakespeare -- In praise of Sidney's Arcadia / Gabriel Harvey -- A defence of poetry / Sir Philip Sidney -- The proper difficulty of poetry / George Chapman -- In praise of religious poetry / Robert Southwell -- Sidney's Arcadia and the rhetoric of English prose / John Hoskyns -- Classical metres suitable for English poetry / Thomas Campion -- Classical metres unsuitable for English poetry / Samuel Daniel -- Rhymes against rhyme / Ben Jonson -- Imitatio and its excesses : poetry, rhetoric, and the imagination / Francis Bacon -- The moral function of poetry / Ben Jonson -- A defence of drama / Thomas Heywood -- On pastoral tragicomedy / John Fletcher -- Against obscurity in love poetry / Dudley North -- On translating and defending Homer / George Chapman -- The faults of contemporary drama / Ben Jonson -- Ben Jonson's literary table-talk / William Drummond -- A tribute to Shakespeare / Ben Jonson -- Elegy on John Fletcher / John Ford -- A defence of drama / Philip Massinger -- Donne the renewer of English poetry / Thomas Carew -- Notes on literature / Ben Jonson -- The making of a Christian poet / John Milton -- On epic poetry / Thomas Hobbes |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [626]-628) and indexes |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Criticism -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Criticism -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Vickers, Brian.
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| LC no. |
00697907 |
| ISBN |
0198186797 |
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