Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance

by David Norbrook

For this edition David Norbrook has provided an extensive introduction which gives an overview of developments in methodology and research since the first edition in 1984, responds to some criticisms, and points the way to further inquiry. Footnotes have been updated to take account of the current state of knowledge, and a chronological table has been provided for ease of reference. Norbrook brings out the range and adventurousness of early modern poets' engagements with the public world.

348 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

David Norbrook is Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford.

Norbrook was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, the University of Aberdeen and Balliol College, Oxford. He became fellow and tutor in English Language and Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1978, and offered some support to the radical pressure group Oxford English Limited in the late 1980s. He is the author of Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance, Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660, and The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse.

Reviews

[Florence Ridley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Imagine writing a thirty page afterword because Stanley Fish said your book wasn't that good. Cringe.

[Dustin Prisley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alongside Blair Worden’s writings, this is the pinnacle of historicist criticism of English Renaissance writing and political culture, notable for its focus on women writers alongside their male counterparts, it gives a remarkable overview of the period and belongs on the shelf of any would-be scholar of the English Renaissance.