Early Modern English Poetry: a Critical Companion

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Review Quotes:"In this densely packed, compact book, Kendall covers a great deal of territory, and delivers extremely sharp and insightful judgments and distinctions that also have the virtue of being relatively brief and pithy."--Stephen E. Tabachnick, English in Literary Transition"An enjoyable read with potentially immense pedagogical value." --Sixteenth Century JournalReview Quotes: "In this densely packed, compact book, Kendall covers a great deal of territory, and delivers extremely sharp and insightful judgments and distinctions that also have the virtue of being relatively brief and pithy."--Stephen E. Tabachnick, English in Literary TransitionTable of Contents: Contents: Thematic and GenericPrefaceSelect Chronology, 1503-1681Introduction: Reading Renaissance Poetry1. Inventing English Verse, Susanne Woods2. Print, Manuscripts, and Miscellanies, Arthur F. Marotti3. Tudor and Stuart Defenses of Poetry, Peter C. Herman4. Wyatt, Surrey, and the Henrician Court, Catherine Bates5. Spenser's May Eclogue and Mid-Tudor Religious Poetry, John N. King6. Early Courtier Verse: Oxford, Dyer, and Gascoigne, Steven May7. Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Petrarchism, William J. Kennedy8. Spenserian Pastoral, Bart van Es9. Spenser's Poetry and the Apocalypse, John Watkins10. Spenser, Virginity, and Sexuality, Elizabeth D. Harvey11. Raleigh, the Queen, and Elizabethan Court Poetry, William A. Oram12. Marlowe's Erotic Verse, Alan Sinfield13. Literary Criticism, Literary History, and the Place of Homoeroticism, Jonathan Goldberg14. "The Phoenix and the Turtle," Renaissance Elegies, and the Language of Grief, Lynn Enterline15. Shakespeare's Literary Career and Narrative Poetry, Patrick Cheney16. Shakespeare's Sonnets and English Sonnet Sequences, Sasha Roberts17. Mary Sidney Herbert and Women's Religious Verse, Danielle Clarke18. Lady Mary Wroth and Women's Love Poetry, Naomi J. Miller19. Donne's Songs and Sonets and Artistic Identity, Andrew Hadfield20. Satire and the Politics of Town, Andrew McRae21. Donne's Religious Poetry and the Trauma of Grace, Achsah Guibbory22. Lanyer and the Poetry of Land and Devotion, Helen Wilcox23. Jonson, King, and Court, Julie Sanders24. Herbert, God, and King, Michael Schoenfeldt25. Crashaw and Religious Bias in the Literary Canon, Lowell Gallagher26. Cavalier Poetry and Civil War, Laura Lunger Knoppers27. Marvell and Pastoral, Thomas Healy28. Milton, the Nativity Ode, the Companion Poems, and Lycidas, Barbara K. LewalskiNotes on ContributorsIndexPublisher Marketing: This text features 28 essays written by important international scholars on the major poems of the English Renaissance. It offers scholarship on subjects ranging from the invention of English verse, Petrarchism, pastoral, elegy, and satire, to women's religious verse, the place of homoeroticism and Cavalier poetry. Contributor Bio:  Cheney, Patrick Patrick Cheney is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. Contributor Bio:  Hadfield, Andrew Adrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. Contributor Bio:  Sullivan, Garrett A, Jr Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities/Folger Shakespeare Library long-term fellowship, he is the author of The Drama of Landscape: Land, Property, and Social Relations on the Early Modern Stage, is on the editorial board for Renaissance Drama, and is Associate Editor of Shakespeare Studies. He has published articles on Shakespeare, Marlowe, Marston, Spenser and others in a number of journals including ELH, Shakespeare Quarterly and Renaissance Drama, and has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500-1600 (1999) and The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe (2004).