{"product_id":"the-oxford-history-of-poetry-in-english-volume-4-sixteenth-century-british-poetry-9780198830696","title":"The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Volume 4. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford History of Poetry in English \u003c\/em\u003eis designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesises existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the volumes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSixteenth-Century British Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage. Featured are metre and form, figuration and allusiveness, and literary career, as well as a wide range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert. Major works discussed include Sidney's \u003cem\u003eAstrophil and Stella\u003c\/em\u003e, Spenser's \u003cem\u003eFaerie Queene\u003c\/em\u003e, Marlowe's \u003cem\u003eHero and Leander\u003c\/em\u003e, and Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003eSonnets\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Bates, \u003cem\u003eResearch Professor, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick\u003c\/em\u003e, Patrick Cheney, \u003cem\u003eEdwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCatherine Bates is Research Professor in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. She was Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, before moving to Warwick in 1995. She specialises in the poetry and poetics of sixteenth-century English poetry, with a focus on lyric, epic, and romance. She has published five monographs on Renaissance literature, including \u003cem\u003eMasculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOn Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's 'Defence of Poesy'\u003c\/em\u003e. She is editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to The Epic\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Companion to Renaissance Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePatrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, where he specialises in English Renaissance poetry and drama, with a focus on literary authorship. He has published seven monographs on Renaissance literature, including \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEarly Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion\u003c\/em\u003e. He is General Editor of the 14-volume \u003cem\u003eOxford History of Poetry in English\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50930068652306,"sku":"9780198830696","price":177.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8fc68e11-bc6b-4547-b9f5-dfe271eb8402.jpg?v=1739061958","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-oxford-history-of-poetry-in-english-volume-4-sixteenth-century-british-poetry-9780198830696","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}