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Beginning with the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I and ending late in the seventeenth century, this volume traces the growth of the literary marketplace, the development of poetic genres, and the participation of different writers in a century of poetic continuity, change, and transformation.
List of contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Editorial Note
- 1: Laura L. Knoppers: Introduction
- I Transitions
- 2: Sebastiaan Verweij: Jacobean to Early Stuart: Scottish and English Poetry and Poetics
- 3: Anthony Welch: Sixteenth-Century European Influences
- 4: Sheldon Brammall: Classical Influences and Innovations
- 5: Thomas Fulton: Biblical Translation and Inspiration
- II Materiality, Production, and Circulation
- 6: Victoria E. Burke: Poetry in Scribal Publication and Circulation
- 7: Emma Depledge: Poetry, Publishers, and Print
- 8: Michelle O'Callaghan: Poetic Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print
- 9: Diana Solomon: Poetry on the Stage
- III Poetics and Form
- 10: Lara Dodds: Speaker and Voice
- 11: Sophie Read: Rhetoric and Figurative Language: Metaphor
- 12: Mandy Green: Allusion
- 13: Jack Lynch: Rhyme, Metre, Sound, Form
- IV Genres
- 14: Ryan Netzley: Sonnet
- 15: Ann Baynes Coiro: Epigram
- 16: Sarah C. E. Ross: Elegy
- 17: Seth Lobis: Georgic
- 18: Takashi Yoshinaka: Ode
- 19: Clement Hawes: Satire
- 20: Una McIlvenna: Songs, Ballads, and Broadsides
- 21: Tanya M. Caldwell: Translation
- 22: Helen Wilcox: Devotional Lyric
- 23: David Venturo: Epic and Mock Epic
- V Poets
- 24: Laura L. Knoppers: Aemilia Lanyer
- 25: Achsah Guibbory: John Donne
- 26: Tom Lockwood: Ben Jonson
- 27: Rosalind Smith: Lady Mary Wroth
- 28: Gary Kuchar: George Herbert
- 29: Nicholas McDowell: Cavalier Poetry
- 30: Marie-Louise Coolahan: Archipelagic Poetry
- 31: Maggie Kilgour: John Milton
- 32: James Loxley: Andrew Marvell
- 33: Sarah Prescott: Katherine Philips
- 34: Arnaud Zimmern: Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson
- 35: Gillian Wright: Aphra Behn and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- 36: Jayne Lewis: John Dryden
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Laura L. Knoppers is George N. Shuster Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She has published widely on seventeenth-century British literature and political culture, particularly the works of John Milton. Her books include Politicizing Domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton's Eve, The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing, and The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution. From 2010 to 2018, she served as editor of Milton Studies. In 2018, she was named an Honoured Scholar of the Milton Society of America.
Summary
Beginning with the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I and ending late in the seventeenth century, this volume traces the growth of the literary marketplace, the development of poetic genres, and the participation of different writers in a century of poetic continuity, change, and transformation.
