Poetry and politics in the English Renaissance /

This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Norbrook, David, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Edition:Rev. ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.
Item Description:Previous edition (i.e. 1st ed.): London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 327 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191697647
0191697648