The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse written by H. Woudhuysen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age - notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare and John Milton. Poems by less well-known writers also feature prominently - among them significant female poets such as Lady Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips. Compelling and exhilarating, this landmark collection illuminates a time of astonishing innovation, imagination and diversity.