Title Manuscript, print, and the English Renaissance lyric / Arthur F. Marotti

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource Contents Chapter One: Lyrics and the Manuscript System -- Chapter Two: Sex, Politics, and the Manuscript System -- Chapter Three: Social Textuality in the Manuscript System -- Chapter Four: Print and the Lyric -- Chapter Five: Patronage, Poetry, and Print -- Conclusion -- General Index -- Index of Manuscripts Summary The last of the literary genres to be incorporated into print culture, verse in the English Renaissance not only was published in anthologies, pamphlets, and folio editions, it was also circulated in manuscript. In this ground-breaking historical and cultural study of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century lyric poetry, Marotti examines the interrelationship between the two systems of literary transmission and shows how in England manuscript and print publication together shaped the emerging institution of literature. Surveying a wide range of manuscript and print poetry of the period, Marotti outlines the different social and institutional contexts in which poems were collected and transmitted. He focuses on the two kinds of verse that were circulated more commonly in manuscript than in print - the obscene and the political - and he considers the contributions of scribes and compilers, particularly in composing "answer poetry" and other verse. Analyzing the process through which print gradually replaced manuscript as the standard medium for lyric verse, he identifies four crucial events in the history of publication in England: the appearances of Tottel's Miscellany ( (1557), Sir Philip Sidney's works in the 1590s, Ben Jonson's folio Workes (1616), and the posthumous editions of the poems of Donne and of Herbert (both 1633). Marotti also considers how certain material features of the book determined the reception of poetry, and he explores how poets attempted to establish their authority in print in relation to publishers, patrons, and readers Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Criticism, Textual English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Manuscripts Manuscripts, Renaissance -- England -- History Printing -- England -- History -- 16th century Printing -- England -- History -- 17th century Literature publishing -- England -- History Transmission of texts. Renaissance -- England English poetry -- Early modern English poetry -- Early modern -- Manuscripts Intellectual life Literature publishing Manuscripts, Renaissance Printing Renaissance Transmission of texts SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043301 England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302 Subject England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501728501 1501728504

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