Description
- Includes complete works or substantial extracts of longer poems wherever possible, including Book III of the 'Faerie Queene' and the whole of 'Astrophil and Stella'.
- Covers a range of genres, including the love lyric, mythological narrative, sacred poetry and political poetry.
- Encourages readers to discover unusual and interesting connections and contrasts between poems and poets.
- Detailed annotations facilitate close reading of the poems.
About the Author
Gordon Braden is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His previous publications include The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry (1978), Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition (1985), The Idea of the Renaissance (1989), and Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance (1999).
Book Information
ISBN 9781405101165
Author Gordon Braden
Format Paperback
Page Count 608
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 1043g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 173mm * 33mm