Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
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Product details:
- Edition number 2 Rev ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 September 2002
- ISBN 9780199247196
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages348 pages
- Size 234x156x19 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Renaissance English poetry was closely involved with affairs of state: some poets held high office, others wrote to influence those in power and to sway an increasingly independent public opinion. In this revised edition of his groundbreaking study, Norbrook offers a clear account of the issues that engaged the passions of such leading figures as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton, and provides introductions to a host of neglected writers.
MoreLong description:
Since its first publication in 1984, Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance has been recognized as the most comprehensive and authoritative study of its kind. For this new edition, Norbrook has provided an extensive afterword which gives an overview of developments in methodology and research since 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. The first part of the book establishes the more radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. Norbrook then shows how such leading Elizabethan poets as Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists, responded powerfully though sometimes ambivalently to more radical ideas. A chapter on Fulke Greville shows how that ambivalence reaches an extreme in some remarkable poetry. Ben Jonson emerges from this analysis as a figure with a political edge, pioneering a reaction against Elizabethan literary and political discourses for the new Stuart monarchy. That reaction in turn generated a neglected vein of 'oppositional' poetry under James I. Milton's early poetry can then be seen as negotiating a complex but increasingly emphatic path between opposing political and literary currents, looking forward to the debates of the English Revolution and beyond. This book's exceptional interdisciplinary commitment makes it a significant intervention in historians' debates about early modern political culture as well as in redrawing the map of literary history.
successfully ambitious ... This book makes better sense than any I know of the relation of poetry in this period to the pre-revolutionary world in which the poets lived.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to the Revised Edition
Preface
The 'Utopia' and Radical Humanism
The Reformation and Prophetic Poetry
'The Shepheardes Calender': Prophecy and the Court
Sidney and Political Pastoral
'The Faerie Queene' and Elizabethan Politics
Voluntary Servitude: Fulke Greville and the Arts of Power
Jonson and the Jacobean Peace, 1603-16
The Spenserians and King James, 1603-16
Crisis and Reaction, 1617-28
The Politics of Milton's Early Poetry
Chronological Table
Index
