num_pages: 194
description: Huntington (English, University of Illinois-Chicago) uncovers a form of subtle social protest encoded in the writings of aspiring Elizabethan poets. He argues that these writers, while recognizing that their survival depended on the favor of wealthy patrons, nonetheless invested their poetry with a new social vision that challenged a nobility of blood and proposed a nobility of learning instead. Focuses on the early work of George Chapman and on the writings of others who shared his social agenda and his nonprivileged status, including Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, as well as neglected writers such as Matthew Roydon and Aemilia Lanyer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England
titlecomplete: Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England
ratings_count: 1
publisher: University of Illinois Press