English Sixteenth Century Verse: An Anthology

This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney and others. The selections — which include such works as 'The Steele Glas'. Richard S. Sylvester examines the evolution of English poetry through the century, tracing the development of the early Tudor poets through the eloquence of Surrey. English Sixteenth-century Verse provides a basic text for the poetry of the period.

• Author
• Richard S. Sylvester, John Skelton, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Campion, Thomas Watson, Thomas Lodge, Giles Fletcher the Elder, Barnabe Barnes, Henry Constable, William Percy, Bartholomew Griffin, Thomas More, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Thomas Sackville, George Gascoigne, Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 656

• Publisher
• W. W. Norton & Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780393302066

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 1984