num_pages: 204
description: Little scholarship exists on the genre of commendatory verse the poetry written by one author to commend the work of another, and generally appearing in the prefatory material of a published work by the latter. ChandlerOs (Northwest Missouri State U.) study focuses on three main book advertisement as part of the history of the English book trade, what such advertisement indicates about the nature of Renaissance authorship, and Ben Johnson's use of commendatory verse to define himself and others as writers. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Commendatory Verse and Authorship in the English Renaissance
titlecomplete: Commendatory Verse and Authorship in the English Renaissance (Mellen Studies in Literature. Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies, V. 129)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr