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Tottel's Miscellany
Holton, Amanda. Ed(S): Holton, Amanda; Macfaul, Tom
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Description for Tottel's Miscellany
Paperback. An anthology of English poetry. It presents these poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership. It covers the major poets of Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, and Earl of Surrey. Editor(s): Holton, Amanda; MacFaul, Tom. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 406.
Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first printed in the volume. Wyatt's intimate poem about lost love which begins 'They flee from me, that sometime did me seke', and Surrey's passionate sonnet ... Read more
Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first printed in the volume. Wyatt's intimate poem about lost love which begins 'They flee from me, that sometime did me seke', and Surrey's passionate sonnet ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141192048
SKU
V9780141192048
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About Holton, Amanda. Ed(S): Holton, Amanda; Macfaul, Tom
Tom MacFaul lectures in Renaissance poetry and drama at Corpus Christi college, Oxford. His books include Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (2007) and Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance England: Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson (2010). Amanda Holton is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton, and a specialist in Old and Middle English and the ... Read more
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