num_pages: 232
description: The historical construction of authorship is of enormous interest to scholars and critics. Yet an important aspect of the historical emergence of the author--the literary biography or "life of the poet"--has received scant attention. In The Emergence of the English Author, Kevin Pask offers the first full-scale history of the cultural construction of literary authority in early modern England, and studies the early life-narratives of major English poets Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, Donne and Milton.
language: English
title: The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England
titlecomplete: The Emergence of the English Author: Scripting the Life of the Poet in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 12)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Cambridge University Press