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Informationen zum Autor Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of: On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy; Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (for which she won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2015); Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric; Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud; and The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature. Klappentext The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520-1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animating the discipline. A Companion to Renaissance Poetry analyzes the historical, cultural, political, and religious background of the time, addressing issues such as education, translation, the Reformation, theorizations of poetry, and more. The book immerses readers in non-dramatic poetry from Wyatt to Milton, focusing on the key poetic genres-epic, lyric, complaint, elegy, epistle, pastoral, satire, and religious poetry. It also offers an inclusive account of the poetic production of the period by canonical and less canonical writers, female and male. Finally, it offers examples of current developments in the interpretation of Renaissance poetry, including economic, ecological, scientific, materialist, and formalist approaches. Covers a wide selection of authors and texts Features contributions from notable authors, scholars, and critics across the globe Offers a substantial section on recent and developing approaches to reading Renaissance poetry A Companion to Renaissance Poetry is an ideal resource for all students and scholars of the literature and culture of the Renaissance period. Zusammenfassung The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520 1680! A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context! production! and interpretation of early modern British poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Preface xvii Acknowledgments xx Part I Contexts 1 Transitions and Translations 3 1 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry 3 Seth Lerer 2 Translation and Translations 16 A. E. B. Coldiron 3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty 31 Lynn Enterline Religions and Reformations 50 4 Poetry and Sacrament in the English Renaissance 50 Gary Kuchar 5 "A sweetness ready penn'd"?: English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era 63 Susannah Brietz Monta Authorships and Authorities 78 6 Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission 78 Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti 7 Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print 103 Jonathan Gibson 8 Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution 115 Stephen B. Dobranski 9 Female Authorship 128 Wendy Wall 10 Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the "Religious Poet" 141 Jonathan Crewe Defenses and Definitions 154 11 Theories and Philosophies of Poetry 154 Robert Matz 12 Tudor Verse Form: Rudeness, Artifice, and Display 166 Joseph Loewenstein
