Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry

by Joshua Eckhardt

This book reappraises the work of early-seventeenth-century collectors of English Renaissance poetry in manuscript. The verse miscellanies, or poetry anthologies, of these collectors have long attracted the attention of literary editors looking for texts by individual, major authors, and they have more recently interested historians for their poems on affairs of state, called verse libels. By contrast, this book investigates the relationships that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199559503
• ISBN13: 9780199559503
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"