Silver poets of the sixteenth century / Edited with an introduction by Gerald Bullett.

Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : J. M. Dent; New York : E. P. Dutton, [1957, 1947]
Descriptionxix, 428 pages ; 18 cm.
Subjects

Other author/creatorDavies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.
Other author/creatorRaleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
Other author/creatorSidney, Philip, 1554-1586.
Other author/creatorSurrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547.
Other author/creatorWyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542.
Other author/creatorBullett, Gerald, 1893-1958.
SeriesEveryman's library. Poetry, no. 985
Contents Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard: Earl of Surrey -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Sir John Davies.
Abstract English poetry, after the splendid summer sun of Chaucer had set, entered early into a rather wintry phase, in which a stirring of folk poetry and Skelton's odd 'flytings and vituperations' were almost the only relief. There were poets, of course, who looked back at the splendour, but their study windows were not opened until the great spring morning of the early sixteenth century when England became a land of song. It was a welcome renewal -- of language, new fancies, new conceits -- a looking into the face of nature. New learning, new culture were abroad; freshness touched the sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Howard and Raleigh as they penned and composed this excitingly new literary form. In this garden of a world, the poets turned to love as their theme and played upon it with virtuosity -- from lines of great artistry and verbal felicity to poems of deep and true feeling.
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy in original dust jacket. Peter Taylor name label inside front cover. Stuart Wright Peter Taylor Book Collection #285. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical notes.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy gift of Stuart Wright, 2014
LCCNa 48006358

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