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Alexander Montgomerie : poetry, politics, and cultural change in Jacobean Scotland /

"A detailed investigation of Alexander Montgomerie's (c. 1550-1598) biography with a careful reading of his verse. Situates Montgomerie's poetry within a bipolar model of later sixteenth-century British culture, against the background of the European development of Mannerist aesthetic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyall, R. J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.
Series:Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 298.
Subjects:
Montgomerie, Alexander, > 1545?-1598.
Politics and literature > Scotland > History > 16th century.
Mannerism (Literature) > History and criticism.
Baroque literature > History and criticism.
Scotland > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Poets, Scottish > To 1700 > Biography.
Scotland > In literature.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Summary:"A detailed investigation of Alexander Montgomerie's (c. 1550-1598) biography with a careful reading of his verse. Situates Montgomerie's poetry within a bipolar model of later sixteenth-century British culture, against the background of the European development of Mannerist aesthetics and the early Baroque"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:xvi, 384 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-372) and index.
ISBN:0866983422 (alk. paper)