Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance

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Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
Author : David Norbrook
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Language : English
Release Date : 07 May 2024
ISBN : 0199247196
Pages : 356 pages
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This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists, responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.

Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance

Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance by David Norbrook

This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists, responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.

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