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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eckhardt, Joshua
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.