Poetry and politics in the English Renaissance
Norbrook, DavidAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2002.
This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.
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This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specialized.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1984 I -- 1. The Utopia and Radical Humanism 6 -- 2. The Reformation and Prophetic Poetry 28 -- 3. The Shepheardes Calender: Prophecy and the Court 53 -- 4. Sidney and Political Pastoral 82 -- 5. The Faerie Queene and Elizabethan Politics 97 -- 6. Voluntary Servitude: Fulke Greville and the Arts of Power 140 -- 7. Jonson and theJacobean Peace, 603-1616 155 -- 8. The Spenserians and KingJames, I603-I616 173 -- 9. Crisis and Reaction, 1617-1628 199 -- 10. The Politics of Milton's Early Poetry 224 -- Afterword 2002 270.
English poetry
Politics and literature
Politics and literature
Political poetry, English
Renaissance
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature