Alexander Montgomerie
Subtitle: poetry, politics, and cultural change in Jacobean Scotland
By: Roderick J. Lyall.
Series: Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies ;; v. 298; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ;; v. 298.
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tempe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780866983426
Subjects: Montgomerie, Alexander, 1545?-1598; Politics and literature -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century; Mannerism (Literature) -- History and criticism; Baroque literature -- History and criticism; Poets, Scottish -- To 1700 -- Biography; Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; Scotland -- In literature
Genres: Biography.
Description: "A detailed investigation of Alexander Montgomerie's (c. 1550-1598) biography with a careful reading of his verse. Situates Montgomerie's poetry within a bipolar model of later sixteenth-century British culture, against the background of the European development of Mannerist aesthetics and the early Baroque"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.