Silver poets of the sixteenth century
By: edited and with an introd. by Gerald Bullett
Series: Everyman's library -- 1985; Everyman's library -- 1985.
Publisher: Dent; Dutton
Published: 1967
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: English poetry; Early modern
Description: "English poetry, after the splendid summer sun of Chaucer had set, entered early into a rather wintry phase, in which a stirring of folk poetry and Skelton's odd 'flytings and vituperations' were almost the only relief ... It was a time of welcome renewal--of language, new fancies, new conceits--a looking into the face of nature. New learning, new culture were abroad; freshness touched the sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Howard and Ralegh as they penned and composed this excitingly new literary form. In this garden of a world, the poets turned to love as their theme and played upon it with virtuosity--from lines of great artistry and verbal felicity to poems of deep and true feeling."
Notes: "An everyman paperback."