{"product_id":"reading-sixteenth-century-poetry-isbn-9781405169547","title":"Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry","description":"\u003ci\u003eReading Sixteenth-Century Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eClose reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePoems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare’s major poems - \u003ci\u003eVenus and Adonis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rape of Lucrece\u003c\/i\u003e, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the \u003ci\u003eSonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Lover's Complaint-\u003c\/i\u003e in the context of his dramatic career\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Pleasures and Uses of Sixteenth-Century Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I 1500–1558. Reading Early Tudor Poetry: Henrician, Edwardian, Marian 19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Voice 21\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Poetic Style of Character: Plain and Eloquent Speaking \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Perception 43\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Crisis of the Reformation, or, What the Poet Sees: Self, Beloved, God \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 World 66\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Poet’s Ecology of Place: Sky, Sea, Soil \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Form 90\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of a Poem: Elegy, Pastoral, Sonnet, Satire, Epic \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Career 115\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Role of the Poet in Society: Skelton, Wyatt, and Surrey \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II 1558–1600. Reading Elizabethan Poetry 139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Voice 141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Poetic Style of Character: From Plain Eloquence to the Metaphysical Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Perception 163\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat the Poet Sees, and the Advent of Modern Personage: Desire, Idolatry, Transport, Partnership\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 World 185\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Poet’s Ecology of Place: Cosmos, Colony, Country \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Form 208\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFictions of Poetic Kind: Pastoral, Sonnet, Epic, Minor Epic, Hymn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Career 231\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Role of the Poet in Society: Whitney, Spenser, and Marlowe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III A Special Case 255\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Shakespeare: Voice, Perception, World, Form, Career 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 280\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRetrospective Poetry: Donne and the End of Sixteenth-Century Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 323\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Highly useful in addressing the formal and generic concerns of sixteenth-century poets, and thus in demonstrating close reading\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReading Sixteenth-Century Poetr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ey\u003c\/i\u003e fails to address the equally important political and theoretical period discourses or the methodologies needed to address them. The unbalanced infatuation with authorial vocation and authorial perspectives thus limits the usefulness of the text. Cheney’s companion text may thus represent a more widespread return to traditional author-centered interpretive theories and a\u003cbr\u003e turn away from poststructural approaches.”  (\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Northern Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 December 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \"Cheney's eye for such intertextual allusion transforms what could have been a series of isolated close readings into a delicately unified exposition of a century's worth of literary dialogue.\" (Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 2011)  \u003cp\u003e\"A carefully selected bibliography that focuses on background sources as well as on primary works and significant critical material is a valuable supplement to the author's consideration of the poetry. Cheney develops his thesis clearly and makes an important contribution to Renaissance scholarship. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\" (Choice, 1 October 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePatrick Cheney\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. He is the author of books on Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser, most recently \u003ci\u003eShakespeare’s Literary Authorship\u003c\/i\u003e (2008) and \u003ci\u003eMarlowe’s Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublim\u003c\/i\u003ee (2009). He has also edited \u003ci\u003eCambridge Companions\u003c\/i\u003e to Marlowe and Shakespeare’s Poetry, co-edited \u003ci\u003eOxford Companions\u003c\/i\u003e to early modern English poetry and drama, and co-edited an Oxford edition of Marlowe’s poems. Currently, he serves as a General Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003ci\u003eReading Sixteenth-Century Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written.  \u003cp\u003eEsteemed Early Modern critic Patrick Cheney emphasises the accessibility of poetry written during the sixteenth century by illuminating the dynamic and enduring nature of these works and their ability to influence readers' lives. A broad range of poetic genres are discussed, including lyric, narrative, and the dramatic, featuring a variety of poets, such as Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Patrick Cheney's \"Reading Sixteenth Century Poetry\" provides a new and indispensible map of English poetry together with its voices, career structures, influences and historical contexts. Cheney's cohesive account challenges the standard narrative about the development of poetry in England and does so through dazzling readings of the verse. The volume's well-paced, lucid prose style also succeeds in making it accessible to undergraduates even as it provides fresh and important insights for scholars. Everybody should teach this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eDympna Callaghan\u003c\/b\u003e, Syracuse University  \u003cp\u003e\"Patrick Cheney's \u003ci\u003eReading Sixteenth-Century Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e is remarkable. Not only does it constitute a masterful and eminently readable introduction to some of the greatest poetry in the English language, but it also provides a set of enabling tools with which this poetry is best approached. Providing close analysis and the broad picture, paying attention to text as well as context, Cheney is a compelling guide to how to read sixteenth-century poetry. I cannot imagine a student who will not greatly benefit from this study.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eLukas Erne\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Geneva\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989918073061,"sku":"NP9781405169547","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405169547.jpg?v=1761785903","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/reading-sixteenth-century-poetry-isbn-9781405169547","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}