English Renaissance Literary Criticism

by Brian Vickers

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive collection of English Renaissance literary criticism to appear for nearly a century. Brian Vickers has brought together a wide-ranging selection of texts, some well-known (such as Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry, the most brilliant critical essay of the whole Renaissance, here given complete), some little-known (Dudley North's account of Metaphysical poetry), and one being printed for the first time (John Ford's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198186797
• ISBN13: 9780198186793
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.2" x 8.4"