Manuscript verse collectors and the politics of anti-courtly love poetry /

This is an analyis of the contribution to literary history of early 17th century hand-written English poetry anthologies. Compiled by manuscript verse collectors, these anthologies preserved a number of pieces by major authors of the English Renaissance, yet they tended to surround them with unprint...

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Main Author: Eckhardt, Joshua
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This is an analyis of the contribution to literary history of early 17th century hand-written English poetry anthologies. Compiled by manuscript verse collectors, these anthologies preserved a number of pieces by major authors of the English Renaissance, yet they tended to surround them with unprintable verses on sex and politics.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 306 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199559503
0199559503
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