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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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- The literary and political activity of manuscript verse collectors
- The politics of courtly and anti-courtly love poetry in the hands of collectors
- 'Love-song weeds, and satyrique thornes': anti-courtly love poetry and Somerset libels
- The Spanish match and the history of sexuality
- Verse collectors and Buckingham's assassination
- Epilogue: redeploying anti-courtly love poetry against the Protectorate.