Renaissance Poetry [Hardcover]

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• Contains a selection of the most significant Renaissance Poetry.
  
• Places traditional favourites are alongside less well-known titles, reflecting the ways in which the literary canon has changed in recent years.
  
• Includes a succinct introduction, which gives readers a sense of how poetry developed during the period.
  
• Ideal for readers seeking a first introduction to the classic texts of English literature.

Introduction.

Acknowledgements.

1. Edmund Spenser (?1552-99):.

Epithalamion.

Prothalamion.

From The Faerie Queene.

1. The bower of Bliss (II. xii.).

2. The garden of Adonis (III. vi.).

3. Mutability claims to rule the world (VII. vii.).

2. Sir Walter Ralegh (?1552-1618):.

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd.

3. Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628):.

From Caelica.

Sonnet 69 (‘When all this All doth pass from age to age').

Sonnet 86 (‘The earth with thunder torn, with fire blasted').

Sonnet 99 (‘Down in the depth of mine iniquity').

Sonnet 100 (‘In night when colours all to black are cast').

4. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86):.

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