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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462597303321

Autore

Warner Christopher

Titolo

The making and marketing of Tottel's Miscellany, 1557 : songs and sonnets in the summer of the martyrs' fires / / J. Christopher Warner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-55588-3

1-317-02496-6

1-4094-5746-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700

Disciplina

821/.209

Soggetti

English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Literature publishing - England - History - 16th century

Books - Great Britain - Marketing

Reader-response criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: From Printer to Reader; 1 "The workes of diuers Latines, Italians, and other"; 2 "To do as praiseworthely as the rest"; 3 "Thinke it not euill doon"; Postscript: "Moe hereafter"; Bibliography of Modern Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First published in the summer of 1557 - as the protestant martyrs' pyres blazed across England - Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other' (more generally known as Tottel's Miscellany) is widely regarded as the first anthology of English poetry responsible for introducing Italianate verse forms to England. Yet those scholars who have paid attention to the book usually dismiss its literary quality and regard its chief accomplishment as paving the way for the Golden Age of Elizabethan verse to come. As Professor Warner makes clear,