![]() Of an early seventeenth-century Elizabethan miscellany which claims the Earl ofĮssex, Spenser and ‘S.P.S.’ (presumably Sir Philp Sidney) as authors. The collectionĪlso discusses current editorial practices and provides the first modern edition Interactions with the French and Italian literary traditions. Repurposed in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, taking into account It discusses how sonnets were written, published, received and Spenser but also of lesser-studied sonneteers such as Barnabe Barnes and Gabriel It does so by exploring the works of such major poets as Shakespeare, Sidney and Reading and textual criticism, it aims to offer a more nuanced history of theįorm in early modern England – and especially of the so-called ‘sonnet craze’. Drawing from book history, using the tools of close ![]() That minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicatingĮstablished conventions. ![]() Organised in sequences, which emerged only at the very end of the sixteenthĬentury and declined as fast as it had bloomed at the turn of the century – and Modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early ![]()
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