Reading sixteenth-century poetry /

• Main Author: Cheney, Patrick, 1949-
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Series: Reading poetry.
• Subjects: 1500-1599; English poetry > 16th century > History and criticism.; English poetry > Appreciation.; LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.; English poetry.; Intellectual life.; England > Intellectual life > 16th century.; England.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 340 pages).
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781444396560; 1444396560; 9781444396546; 1444396544; 1283408481; 9781283408486
• DOI: 10.1002/9781444396560

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genresPoems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissan.