Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry

Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period. Each chapter covers a major figure in Early Modern poetry and explores two different poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including:
- Classical
- Formalist
- Psychoanalytic
- Marxist
- Structuralist
- Reader-response
- New Historicist
- Ecocritical
- Multicultural
Poets covered include: Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Anne Vaughan Lock, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Aemilia Lanyer, Martha Moulsworth, Lady Mary Wroth, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, John Milton and Katherine Philips.
///////////////////////////////////////////// Preface -- Introduction: Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1616): "What Is Our Life?" -- Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42): "They flee from me" ; "My lute, awake!" -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47): "Love, that doth reign and live within my thought" ; "Th'Assyrians' king, in peace with foul desire" -- Anne Vaughan Locke (1534?-after 1590): "And then not daring with presuming eye" ; "Have mercy, God, for thy great mercy's sake" -- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86): Astrophil and Stella ("It is most true") ; Astrophil and Stella ("Who will in fairest book") -- Edmund Spenser (1552-99): Amoretti ("Most glorious Lord of life") ; Amoretti ("One day I wrote her name") ; The Faerie Queene, I.i-ii -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-93): "The passionate shepherd to his love" ; "Hero and Leander" (excerpt) -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnets 3 and 147 ; "Venus and Adonis" (excerpt) -- John Donne (1572-1631): "The Flea" ; "Holy Sonnet 14" -- Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645): "Eve's apology in defense of women" (excerpt) ; "The description of Cookham" (excerpt) -- Ben Jonson (1572-1637): "On my first son" ; "To Penshurst" (excerpt) -- Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651/3): "Like to the Indians" ; Martha Moulsworth (1577-1646): "The memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, widow" (excerpt) -- George Herbert (1593-1633): "Redemption" ; "The collar" -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674): "Corinna's going a-Maying" ; "To the virgins, to make much of time" -- Katharine Philips (1632-64): "Upon the double murder of King Charles" ; "Friendship's mystery" -- Andrew Marvell (1621-78): "To his coy mistress" ; "The mower against gardens" -- John Milton (1608-74): "Lycidas" (excerpt) ; Paradise lost, Book 12 (excerpt) -- Afterword: Critical pluralism : "A contemplation on Bassets-down-Hill" by Anne Kemp -- Appendix: The kinds of questions different critics ask / Christina M. Garner.
Table of Contents Introduction 1 Thomas Wyatt 2 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 3 Anne Vaughan Lock 4 Sir Philip Sidney 5 Edmund Spenser 6 Christopher Marlowe 7 William Shakespeare 8 John Donne 9 Ben Jonson 10 Aemlia Lanyer 11 Lady Mary Wroth 12 George Herbert 13 Robert Herrick 14 Andrew Marvell 15 John Milton 16 Katherine Philips 17 Afterword: Critical Pluralism Notes Bibliography Index