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This volume brings together examples of English verse satire written during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, interpreting satire widely to include reflective poems modelled on Horace, ''aggressive'' poems modelled on Juvenal, and poems in the native or medieval tradition. There are substantial extracts from the anonymous Cock Lorell''s Boat , Skelton''s Colin Clout and Spenser''s Mother Hubberd''s Tale , but most poems are given complete. Among other poets represented are Wyatt, Donne, Marston and Jonson and a number of pieces have been included by writers whose work is today not readily accessible, such as Gascoigne, Lodge, Rowlands and Guilpin. The nature and development of verse satire as a literary genre is discussed in the introduction.>
List of contents
Introduction
Bibliography
1. ANONYMOUS Cock Lorell's Boat
2. SKELTON Colin Clout
3, 4. WYATT Satires II, III
5. DRANT Translation of Horace, Satires, II, I
6, 7. ANONYMOUS Two poems from
Gude and
Godlie Ballatis8. GASCOIGNE The Steel Glass
9. SPENSER Mother Hubberd's Tale
10. SPENSER Colin Clout's Come Home Again
11. ANONYMOUS Ballad, The Abuses of This Wicked World
12. LODGE Truth's Complaint over England
13. LODGE The Discontented Satyre
14. LODGE In Commendation of a Solitary Life
15. LODGE
A Fig for Momus: Satire v
16. DONNE Satire IV
17. DONNE Letter to Sit Henry Wooton
18-23. HALL
Virgidemiae: Prologue; Satires I, vii; II, vii; III, vi; IV, vi; IV, vii
24-26. MARSTON
The Scourge of Villainy: Satire VII; Proemium to Book III; Satire VIII
27. GUILPIN
Skialetheia: Satire V
28. T. M.
Micro-cynicon: Satire IV
29-31. ROWLANDS The Letting of Humour's Blood in the Head-Vein: Satires I, III, IV
32. WEEVER A Prophecy of this Present Year 1600
33. BRETON A Solemn Farewell to the World
34. MIDDLETON Time's Metamorphosis
35. JONSON Translation of Horace, Satires, II, I
36. JONSON Inviting a Friend to Supper
37. JONSON On the Famous Voyage
38. JONSON To Penshurst
39. JONSON To Sir Robert Wroth
Notes