The Oxford History of Poetry in English : Volume 4. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesises existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the volumes. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage. Featured are metre and form, figuration and allusiveness, and literary career, as well as a wide range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert. Major works discussed include Sidney's Astrophil and Stella , Spenser's Faerie Queene , Marlowe's Hero and Leander , and Shakespeare's Sonnets . Cover The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Sixteenth-Century British Poetry: Volume 4 Copyright Dedication General Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Editorial Note 1: Introduction Transitions and Contexts Practices Forms Poets Transitions A Case Study: Spenser’s Temple of Venus and Sixteenth-Century Poetry PART I: TRANSITIONS AND CONTEXTS 2: Transitions Pyramus and Thisbe at Home Morpheus in the Margins Midas in the Database The Transitions of Nick Bottom 3: Social Contexts Rhetoric, Poetics, and Poetry Religion Politics and Government 4: Professional Contexts PART II: PRACTICES 5: Poetics Humanist Theories of Poetry: Sixteenth Century Modern Theories of Poetry: Humanist and Post-Humanist A Sublime Poetics of Literary Freedom 6: Style Wyatt’s Rhythms Gascoigne’s Long Lines Stanyhurst’s Quantities Marlowe’s Mighty Couplets Spenser’s Archaisms Drayton’s Hexameters Donne Himself 7: Allusiveness Imitation and Allusion Type 1: Allusion to Authorial Names Type 2: Repurposing of Texts Type 3: Allusions to Proverbs Type 4: Allusion to Verbal Style Type 5: Formal Allusion Type 6: Self-Allusion Type 7: Parody and Plagiarism A History of Sixteenth-Century Poetry? 8: Figuration Metaphor Metonymy Synecdoche Irony Conclusion 9: Career PART III: FORMS 10: Miscellany Tottel’s Miscellany The Mirror for Magistrates England’s Helicon 11: Lyric Lyric Theory, Modern and Early Modern Lyric Poetry, Short and Sweet 12: Sonnet Labouring for Invention Labouring for Copia Labouring for Renewal 13: Satire Early Tudor Satire Elizabethan Satire 14: Pastoral Vernacular Music Anglicising the Eclogue Lyrical Pastoral 15: Epic Models and Theories Translations Spenser, Shakespeare, and the Tears of Calliope 16: Minor Epic The Minor Epic Canon and Prevalent Critical Approaches Associative Emulation and the Poet’s Self-Pronouncement Dissociative Emulation and the Evolving Poetic Career 17: History The Medieval Inheritance: Metrical Chronicles Sidney and the Conflict between Poetry and History Briton Moniments Drayton’s Historical Poetry 18: Elegy Elegy Amongst the Genres The Origins of Elegy Ovidian Elegy in the Sixteenth Century Funeral Elegy ‘Astrophel’ and The Shepheardes Calender Elegy, Subjection, and Subversion in the 1590s Donne’s Elegies 19: Complaint Complaints Against the Times The Mirror for Magistrates Spenser’s Complaints Personal Complaint Love Complaints Tottel’s Miscellany Female Complaint Spiritual Complaints Conclusion 20: Devotional Poetry PART IV: POETS 21: Skelton Conspicuous Experiment: The Skeltonic Inconspicuous Experiment: Skelton’s Rhyme Royal Practical Experiment and Experimental Poetics 22: Scots Poetry Lyrical Writing from James V Onwards 23: Wyatt and Surrey ‘The first reformers and polishers of our vulgar poesy’ ‘Imitating very naturally and studiously theirmaster Francis Petrarch’ 24: Mid-Tudor Poetry Forms Form: Printed Anthologies Printed Anthologies: Thomas Howell Printed Anthologies: George Turberville Format Formulation: The Discourses of Poetry—Gascoigne Formulation: Structuring Ideologies—Whitney and the City Conclusions 25: Philip Sidney 26: Spenser: Shorter Poetry The New Poet: From the Theatre to the Calender Styles of Complaint: Spenser’s Poetic Bildung Beyond Epic: Spenser as Love Poet 27: Spenser: The Faerie Queene Form, Mode, and Content The Faerie Queene (1590) The Faerie Queene (1596) Two Cantos of Mutabilitie (1609) 28: Daniel, Drayton, Chapman Daniel Drayton Chapman 29: Marlowe Translation 1, Anti-Epic Model 1: Power That Crushes, Lucan’s First Book Translation 2, Anti-Epic Model 2: A Poetry of Wanton Toys, All Ovid’s Elegies A Poetry That Invites: ‘The Passionate Shepherd To His Love’ A Poetry of Dallying: Hero and Leander A Poetry of Sociability: Plays That Play With Me 30: Shakespeare The Sonnets Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’ A Lover’s Complaint 31: Ralegh Poetics and Reading Strategies ‘The Ocean’s Love to Cynthia’ Concluding Thoughts 32: Mary Sidney Herbert Sidney Herbert In Print Sidney Herbert’s Psalms Sidney Herbert Beyond the Psalms: The Commendatory Poems and The Triumph of Death Sidney Herbert the Poet PART V: TRANSITIONS 33: The Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century Complete Bibliography Index "Sixteenth-Century British Poetry features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage. Featured are metre and form, figuration and allusiveness, and literary career, as well as a wide range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert. Major works discussed include Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and Shakespeare's Sonnets."--Publisher's description