The Anchor Anthology of Sixteenth-century Verse

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Richard Standish Sylvester
Anchor Press, 1974 - Poetry - 624 pages
"This anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five of the major poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than "normalized" texts, the volume includes complete, non-excerpted poems by John Skelton, Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe. Edmund Spenser, Thomas Campion, Thomas More, George Gascoigne, Thomas Wyatt, the Earl of Surrey, Thomas Sackville, Walter Raliegh, Michael Drayton, and others. The selections, including "The Steele Glas," "Amoretti," "Epithalamion," "Prothalamion," "Astrophil and Stella," and "Hero and Leander," represent both major poems and major poets of the period, with the fullest possible representation given to those individuals who loomed the largest in the era. In his introduction, Professor Sylvester examines the evolution of English poetry through the century, tracing the development of the early Tudor poets through the eloquence of Surrey, the experimentation of Sackville and Gascoigne, and the maturity and sophistication of the works of Spenser and Sidney. This collection, when used with a volume of Shakespeare's sonnets, is the basic text for the major poetry of the sixteenth century. The texts in the volume are thoroughly annotated, and the work of each poet is supplemented by a biography, bibliography, and source notes." -Publisher.

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SIR THOMAS MORE 14771535
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SIR THOMAS WYATT 150342
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Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise
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