{"title":"Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-penguin-book-of-renaissance-verse-15091659-penguin-classics-9780140423464","title":"The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 15091659","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age—notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare and John Milton. Poems by less well-known writers also feature prominently—among them significant female poets such as Lady Mary Wroth and Katherine Philips. Compelling and exhilarating, this landmark collection illuminates a time of astonishing innovation, imagination and diversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by intr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected and with an Introduction by David Norbrook - Edited by H.R. Woudhuysen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations Used in the Text\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eNote on the Text and Annotation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. The Public World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. JOHN SKELTON: [from A Lawde and Prayse Made for Our Sovereigne Lord the Kyng]\u003cbr\u003e2. SIR THOMAS MORE: De Principe Bono Et Malo\u003cbr\u003e3. Quis Optimus Reipublicae Status\u003cbr\u003e4. SIR DAVID LINDSAY: [from The Dreme] The Complaynt of the Comoun weill of Scotland\u003cbr\u003e5. SIR THOMAS WYATT: [Who lyst his welth and eas Retayne]\u003cbr\u003e6. In Spayn\u003cbr\u003e7. [The piller pearisht is whearto I Lent]\u003cbr\u003e8. HENRY HOWARD, EARLY OF SURREY: [Thassyryans king in peas with fowle desyre]\u003cbr\u003e9. ANONYMOUS: John Arm-strongs last good night\u003cbr\u003e10. ROBERT CROWLEY: Of unsaciable purchasers\u003cbr\u003e11. JOHN HEYWOOD: [from A Ballad on the Marriage of Philip and Mary]\u003cbr\u003e12. WILLIAM BIRCH: [from A songe betwene the Quenes majestie and Englande]\u003cbr\u003e13. QUEEN ELIZABETH I: [The dowbt off future foes exiles my present joye]\u003cbr\u003e14. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]\u003cbr\u003e15. ANONYMOUS: Of Sir Frauncis Walsingham Sir Phillipp Sydney, and Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancelor\u003cbr\u003e16. GEORGE PUTTENHAM: Her Majestie resembled to the crowned piller\u003cbr\u003e17. ANNE DOWRICHE: [from The French Historie]\u003cbr\u003e18. SIR WALTER RALEGH: [Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light]\u003cbr\u003e19. [from Fortune hath taken the away my love]\u003cbr\u003e20. QUEEN ELIZABETH I: [Ah silly pugge wert thou so sore afraid]\u003cbr\u003e21. SIR WALTER RALEGH: The 21th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia\u003cbr\u003e22. The Lie\u003cbr\u003e23. ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE: [Remembers thou in Aesope of a taill]\u003cbr\u003e24. SIR JOHN HARINGTON: A Tragicall Epigram\u003cbr\u003e25. Of Treason\u003cbr\u003e26. FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE: [from Caelica] Sonnet 78\u003cbr\u003e27. GEORGE PEELE: [from Anglorum Feriae]\u003cbr\u003e28. JOHN DONNE: The Calme\u003cbr\u003e29. [from Satire 4]\u003cbr\u003e30. ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX: [Change thy minde since she doth change]\u003cbr\u003e31. MARY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE: [To Queen Elizabeth]\u003cbr\u003e32. EDMUND SPENSER: [from The Faerie Queene Book 5]\u003cbr\u003e33. EOCHAIDH Ó HEÓGHUSA: [On Maguire's Winter Campaign]\u003cbr\u003e34. BEN JONSON: On the Union\u003cbr\u003e35. SIR ARTHUR GORGES: Written upon the death of the most Noble Prince Henrie\u003cbr\u003e36. SIR HENRY WOTTON: Upon the sudden Restraint of the Earle of Somerset, then falling from favor\u003cbr\u003e37. WILLIAM BROWNE: [from Brittania's Pastorals Book 2]\u003cbr\u003e38. ANONYMOUS: Feltons Epitaph\u003cbr\u003e39. ANONYMOUS: [Epitaph on the Duke of Buckingham]\u003cbr\u003e40. SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE: [from An Ode Upon occasion of His Majesties Proclamation in the yeare 1630]\u003cbr\u003e41. JOHN CLEVELAND: Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford\u003cbr\u003e42. SIR JOHN DENHAM: Coopers Hill\u003cbr\u003e43. MARTIN PARKER: Upon defacing of White-hall\u003cbr\u003e44. ROBERT HERRICK: A King and no King\u003cbr\u003e45. ANDREW MARVELL: An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland\u003cbr\u003e46. SIR WILLIAM MURE: [from The Cry of Blood, and of a Broken Covenant]\u003cbr\u003e47. KATHERINE PHILIPS: On the 3. of September, 1651\u003cbr\u003e48. JOHN MILTON: To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652\u003cbr\u003e49. To Sir Henry Vane the younger\u003cbr\u003e50. ANDREW MARVELL: [from The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C.]\u003cbr\u003e51. ALEXANDER BROME: On Sir G.B. his defeat\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Images of Love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e52. ANONYMOUS: [Westron wynde when wylle thow blow]\u003cbr\u003e53. SIR THOMAS WYATT: [They fle from me that sometyme did me seke]\u003cbr\u003e54. [Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde]\u003cbr\u003e55. [It may be good like it who list]\u003cbr\u003e56. [My lute awake perfourme the last]\u003cbr\u003e57. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY: [The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes]\u003cbr\u003e58. ALEXANDER SCOTT: [To luve unluvit it is ane pane]\u003cbr\u003e59. GEORGE TURBERVILLE: To his Love that sent him a Ring wherein was gravde, Let Reason rule\u003cbr\u003e60. ISABELLA WHITNEY: I.W. To her unconstant Lover\u003cbr\u003e61. GEORGES GASCOIGNE: [A Sonet written in prayse of the brown beautie]\u003cbr\u003e62. ANONYMOUS: A new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeves\u003cbr\u003e63. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: [from Certain Sonnets: 4]\u003cbr\u003e64. [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]\u003cbr\u003e65. [from Astrophil and Stella] 1\u003cbr\u003e66. [from Astrophil and Stella] 2\u003cbr\u003e67. [from Astrophil and Stella] 9\u003cbr\u003e68. [from Astrophil and Stella] 72\u003cbr\u003e69. [from Astrophil and Stella] 81\u003cbr\u003e70. [from Astrophil and Stella] 83\u003cbr\u003e71. [from Astrophil and Stella] Eight song\u003cbr\u003e72. [from Astrophil and Stella] Eleventh song\u003cbr\u003e73. FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE: [from Caelica] Sonnet 22\u003cbr\u003e74. [from Caelica] Sonnet 27\u003cbr\u003e75. [from Caelica] Sonnet 39\u003cbr\u003e76. [from Caelica] Sonnet 44\u003cbr\u003e77. [from Caelica] Sonnet 84\u003cbr\u003e78. MARK ALEXANDER BOYD: Sonet\u003cbr\u003e79. ROBERT GREENE: Dorons description of Samela\u003cbr\u003e80. EDMUND SPENSER: [from The Faerie Queene Book 2]\u003cbr\u003e81. [from The Faerie Queene Book 3]\u003cbr\u003e82. [from The Faerie Queene Book 3]\u003cbr\u003e83. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 23\u003cbr\u003e84. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 64\u003cbr\u003e85. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 67\u003cbr\u003e86. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 70\u003cbr\u003e87. [from Amoretti] Sonnet 71\u003cbr\u003e88. Epithalamion\u003cbr\u003e89. SIR WALTER RALEGH: [As you came from the holy land]\u003cbr\u003e90. SAMUEL DANIEL: [from Delia] Sonnet 13\u003cbr\u003e91. [from Delia] Sonnet 39\u003cbr\u003e92. [from Delia] Sonnet 52\u003cbr\u003e93. SIR JOHN DAVIES: [from Gullinge Sonnets]\u003cbr\u003e94. [Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes]\u003cbr\u003e95. THOMAS NASHE: The choise of valentines\u003cbr\u003e96. JOHN DONNE: To his Mistress going to bed\u003cbr\u003e97. BARNABE BARNES: [from Parthenophil and Parthenophe] Sonnet 27\u003cbr\u003e99. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: The passionate Sheepheard to his love\u003cbr\u003e99. Hero and Leander\u003cbr\u003e100. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: [from Venus and Adonis]\u003cbr\u003e101. [from Lucrece]\u003cbr\u003e102. RICHARD BARNFIELD: [from Cynthia] Sonnet 8\u003cbr\u003e103. [from Cynthia] Sonnet 11\u003cbr\u003e104. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: [from Sonnets] 19\u003cbr\u003e105. [from Sonnets] 20\u003cbr\u003e106. [from Sonnets] 29\u003cbr\u003e107. [from Sonnets] 35\u003cbr\u003e108. [from Sonnets] 36\u003cbr\u003e109. [from Sonnets] 55\u003cbr\u003e110. [from Sonnets] 56\u003cbr\u003e111. [from Sonnets] 66\u003cbr\u003e112. [from Sonnets] 74\u003cbr\u003e113. [from Sonnets] 94\u003cbr\u003e114. [from Sonnets] 121\u003cbr\u003e115. [from Sonnets] 124\u003cbr\u003e116. [from Sonnets] 129\u003cbr\u003e117. [from Sonnets] 135\u003cbr\u003e118. [from Sonnets] 138\u003cbr\u003e119. [from Sonnets] 144\u003cbr\u003e120. ROBERT SIDNEY, EARL OF LEICESTER: Sonnet 21\u003cbr\u003e121. Sonnet 25\u003cbr\u003e122. Sonnet 31\u003cbr\u003e123. Songe 17\u003cbr\u003e124. GEORGE CHAPMAN: [from Hero and Leander Sestiad 3]\u003cbr\u003e125. JOHN MARSTON: [from The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image]\u003cbr\u003e126. THOMAS DELONEY: [Long have I lov'd this bonny Lasse]\u003cbr\u003e127. ANONYMOUS: [from The wanton Wife of Bath]\u003cbr\u003e128. [JOHN DOWLAND]: [Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new]\u003cbr\u003e129. THOMAS CAMPION: [Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe]\u003cbr\u003e130. [Rose-cheekt Lawra come]\u003cbr\u003e131. [There is a Garden in her face]\u003cbr\u003e132. JOHN DONNE: His Picture\u003cbr\u003e133. The Sunne Rising\u003cbr\u003e134. The Canonization\u003cbr\u003e135. Loves growth\u003cbr\u003e136. A Valediction of weeping\u003cbr\u003e137. A Valediction forbidding mourning\u003cbr\u003e138. MICHAEL DRAYTON: [from Idea] 10\u003cbr\u003e139. [from Idea] 61\u003cbr\u003e140. To His Coy Love, A Canzonet\u003cbr\u003e141. BEN JONSON: Why I Write Not of Love\u003cbr\u003e142. My Picture left in Scotland\u003cbr\u003e143. LADY MARY WROTH: [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 23\u003cbr\u003e144. [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] 34\u003cbr\u003e145. [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus] A crowne of Sonetts dedicated to Love\u003cbr\u003e146. [from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus]\u003cbr\u003e147. [from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania] 7\u003cbr\u003e148. ROBERT HERRICK: Delight in Disorder\u003cbr\u003e149. The Vision\u003cbr\u003e150. The silken Snake\u003cbr\u003e151. Her Bed\u003cbr\u003e152. Upon Julia's haire fil'd with Dew\u003cbr\u003e153. Upon Sibilla\u003cbr\u003e154. THOMAS CAREW: The Spring\u003cbr\u003e155. Ingratefull beauty threatned\u003cbr\u003e156. [from A Rapture]\u003cbr\u003e157. MARTIN PARKER: [from Cupid's Wrongs Vindicated]\u003cbr\u003e158. [from Well met Neighbour]\u003cbr\u003e159. EDMUND WALLER: The story of Phoebus and Daphne appli'd\u003cbr\u003e160. Song\u003cbr\u003e161. The Budd\u003cbr\u003e162. SIR JOHN SUCKLING: [Out upon it, I have lov'd]\u003cbr\u003e163. JOHN CLEVELAND: The Antiplatonick\u003cbr\u003e164. RICHARD LOVELACE: Song. To Lucasta, Going to the Warres\u003cbr\u003e165. Gratiana dauncing and singing\u003cbr\u003e166. To Althea, From Prison\u003cbr\u003e167. Her Muffe\u003cbr\u003e168. [from On Sanazar's being honoured with six hundred Duckets by the Clarissimi of Venice, for composing an Elegiack Hexastick of the City. A Satyre]\u003cbr\u003e169. ANDREW MARVELL: To his Coy Mistress\u003cbr\u003e170. The Gallery\u003cbr\u003e171. The Definition of Love\u003cbr\u003e172. JAMES HARRINGTON: Inconstancy\u003cbr\u003e173. KATHERINE PHILIPS: An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Topographies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e174. ALEXANDER BARCLAY: [from Certayne Egloges 5]\u003cbr\u003e175. GEORGE BUCHANAN: Calendae Maiae\u003cbr\u003e176. ANONYMOUS: [from Vox populi vox Dei]\u003cbr\u003e177. ANONYMOUS: [from Jack of the North]\u003cbr\u003e178. ANONYMOUS: The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield\u003cbr\u003e179. BARNABE GOOGE: Goyng towardes Spayne\u003cbr\u003e180. SIÔON PHYLIP: [from Yr Wylan]\u003cbr\u003e181. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: [from The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia]\u003cbr\u003e182. EDMUND SPENSER: [from The Shepheardes Calender] Maye\u003cbr\u003e183. ALEXANDER HUME: [from Of the day Estivall]\u003cbr\u003e184. JOHN DAVIES: [from Epigrammes] In Cosmum 17\u003cbr\u003e185. JOSEPH HALL: [from Virgidemiarum Book 5]\u003cbr\u003e186. EVERARD GUILPIN: [from Skialetheia Satire 5]\u003cbr\u003e187. ANONYMOUS: A Songe bewailinge the tyme of Christmas, So much decayed in Englande\u003cbr\u003e188. JOHN DONNE: A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day\u003cbr\u003e189. AEMILIA LANYER: The Description of Cooke-ham\u003cbr\u003e190. BEN JONSON: To Penshurst\u003cbr\u003e191. MICHAEL DRAYTON: [from Pastorals] The Ninth Eglogue\u003cbr\u003e192. [from Poly-Olbion Song 6]\u003cbr\u003e193. To the Virginian Voyage\u003cbr\u003e194. SAMUEL DANIEL: [from Epistle. To Prince Henrie]\u003cbr\u003e195. ANONYMOUS: On Francis Drake\u003cbr\u003e196. W. TURNER: [from Turners dish of Lentten stuffe, or a Galymaufery]\u003cbr\u003e197. JOHN TAYLOR: [from The Sculler] Epigram 22\u003cbr\u003e198. WILLIAM BROWNE: [from Britannia's Pastorals Book 2]\u003cbr\u003e199. EDWARD HERBERT, LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY: Sonnet\u003cbr\u003e200. RICHARD CORBETT: A Proper New Ballad Intituled the Faeryes Farewell: Or God-A-Mercy Will\u003cbr\u003e201. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT: The Countess of Anglesey lead Captive by the Rebels, at the Disforresting of Pewsam\u003cbr\u003e202. GEORGE WITHER: [from Britain's Remembrancer Canto 4]\u003cbr\u003e203. JOHN MILTON: Song on May morning 204. L'Allegro\u003cbr\u003e205. ROBERT HERRICK: To Dean-bourn, a rude River in Devon, by which sometimes he lived\u003cbr\u003e206. Corinna's going a Maying\u003cbr\u003e207. To Meddowes\u003cbr\u003e208. The Wassaile\u003cbr\u003e209. RICHARD CRASHAW: [from Bulla]\u003cbr\u003e210. ABRAHAM COWLEY: The Wish\u003cbr\u003e211. ANONYMOUS: [The Diggers' Song]\u003cbr\u003e212. HENRY VAUGHAN: [from To his retired friend, an Invitation to Brecknock]\u003cbr\u003e213. RICHARD LOVELACE: The Snayl\u003cbr\u003e214. ANDREW MARVELL: Bermudas\u003cbr\u003e215. The Mower to the Glo-Worms\u003cbr\u003e216. The Mower against Gardens\u003cbr\u003e217. The Garden\u003cbr\u003e218. [from Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax]\u003cbr\u003e219. MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE: Of many Worlds in this World\u003cbr\u003e220. A Dialogue betwixt Man, and Nature\u003cbr\u003e221. Similizing the Sea to Meadowes, and Pastures, the Marriners to Shepheards, the Mast to a May-pole, Fishes to Beasts\u003cbr\u003e222. KATHERINE PHILIPS: Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Friends, Patrons and the Good Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e223. SIR THOMAS WYATT: [Myn owne John poyntz sins ye delight to know]\u003cbr\u003e224. GEORGE GASCOIGNE: [Upon the theme: Magnum vectigal parcimonia]\u003cbr\u003e225. [Gascoignes wodmanship]\u003cbr\u003e226. EDWARD DE VERE, EARL OF OXFORD: [Weare I a Kinge I coulde commande content]\u003cbr\u003e227. THOMAS LODGE: [from Scillaes Metamorphosis]\u003cbr\u003e228. JOHN DONNE: To Sir Henry Wotton\u003cbr\u003e229. THOMAS DELONEY: The Weavers Song\u003cbr\u003e230. THOMAS DEKKER: [Art thou poore yet hast thou golden Slumbers]\u003cbr\u003e231. SAMUEL DANIEL: To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with Mr. Donnes Satyres\u003cbr\u003e233. Inviting a Friend to Supper\u003cbr\u003e234. [THOMAS RAVENSCROFT]: [Hey hoe what shall I say]\u003cbr\u003e235. [Sing we now merily]\u003cbr\u003e236. A Belmans song\u003cbr\u003e237. THOMAS CAMPION: [Now winter nights enlarge]\u003cbr\u003e238. ANONYMOUS: The Mode of France\u003cbr\u003e239. MICAHEL DRAYTON: These verses weare made By Michaell Drayton Esquier Poett Lawreatt the night before hee dyed\u003cbr\u003e240. EDMUND WALLER: At Pens-hurst\u003cbr\u003e241. RICHARD LOVELACE: The Grasse-hopper. To my Noble Friend, Mr. Charles Cotton. Ode\u003cbr\u003e242. ALEXANDER BROME: [from The Prisoners] Written when O.C. attempted to be King\u003cbr\u003e243. JOHN MILTON: [To Edward Lawrence]\u003cbr\u003e244. KATHERINE PHILIPS: Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia\u003cbr\u003e245. Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal. To my dearest Lucasia\u003cbr\u003e246. To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. Church, State and Belief\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e247. JOHN SKELTON: [from Collyn Clout]\u003cbr\u003e248. ANNE ASKEW: The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange whan she was in Newgate\u003cbr\u003e249. LUKE SHEPHERD: [from The Upcheringe of the Messe]\u003cbr\u003e250. ANONYMOUS: [A Lament for our Lady's Shrine at Walsingham]\u003cbr\u003e251. JOHN HEYWOOD: [from Epygrams] Of turnyng.\u003cbr\u003e252. GEORGE PUTTENHAM: [from Partheniades] Partheniad 11 Urania\u003cbr\u003e253. ROBERT SOUTHWELL: The burning Babe\u003cbr\u003e254. HENRY CONSTABLE: To St. Mary Magdalen\u003cbr\u003e255. SIR JOHN HARINGTON: A Groome of the Chambers religion in King Henry the eights time\u003cbr\u003e256. JOHN DONNE: Satyre 3\u003cbr\u003e257. Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward\u003cbr\u003e258. Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse\u003cbr\u003e259. [from Holy Sonnets]\u003cbr\u003e260. [Since she whome I lovd, hath payd her last debt]\u003cbr\u003e261. [Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and cleare]\u003cbr\u003e262. FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE: [from Caelica] Sonnet 89\u003cbr\u003e263. [from Caelica] Sonnet 99\u003cbr\u003e264. [from Caelica] Sonnet 109\u003cbr\u003e265. GILES FLETCHER: [from Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, over, and after death]\u003cbr\u003e266. AEMILIA LANYER: [from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum]\u003cbr\u003e267. WILLIAM DRUMMOND: [For the Baptiste]\u003cbr\u003e268. [Content and Resolute]\u003cbr\u003e269. PHINEAS FLETCHER: [Vast Ocean of light, whose rayes surround]\u003cbr\u003e270. JOHN MILTON: On the morning of Christs Nativity\u003cbr\u003e271. FRANCIS QUARLES: [from Pentelogia] Fraud Mundi\u003cbr\u003e272. [from Divine Fancies] On the contingencie of Actions\u003cbr\u003e273. [from Divine Fancies] On the Needle of a Sun-diall\u003cbr\u003e274. [from Divine Fancies] On the Booke of Common Prayer\u003cbr\u003e275. [from Divine Fancies] On Christ and our selves\u003cbr\u003e276. GEORGE HERBERT: Perseverance\u003cbr\u003e277. Redemption\u003cbr\u003e278. Easter wings\u003cbr\u003e279. Prayer\u003cbr\u003e280. Deniall\u003cbr\u003e281. Jordan\u003cbr\u003e282. The Collar\u003cbr\u003e283. The Flower\u003cbr\u003e284. The Forerunners\u003cbr\u003e285. Love\u003cbr\u003e286. [from The Church Militant]\u003cbr\u003e287. ANONYMOUS: [Yet if his Majestie our Sovareigne lord]\u003cbr\u003e288. SIDNEY GODOLPHIN: [Lord when the wise men came from Farr]\u003cbr\u003e289. JOHN TAYLOR: [from Here followeth the unfashionable fashion, or the too too homely Worshipping of God]\u003cbr\u003e290. EDMUND WALLER: Upon His Majesties repairing of Pauls\u003cbr\u003e291. RICHARD CRASHAW: A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the Shepheards\u003cbr\u003e292. To the Noblest and best of Ladyes, the Countesse of Denbigh\u003cbr\u003e293. [from The Flaming Heart]\u003cbr\u003e294. ANONYMOUS: Upon Arch-bishop Laud, Prisoner in the Tower. 1641\u003cbr\u003e295. ROBERT WILD: [from Alas poore Scholler, whither wilt thou goe]\u003cbr\u003e296. JOHN MILTON: On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament\u003cbr\u003e297. MORGAN LLWYD: [from The Summer]\u003cbr\u003e298. LAURENCE CLARKSON: [from A Single Eye All Light, no Darkness]\u003cbr\u003e299. HENRY VAUGHAN: The Retreate\u003cbr\u003e300. The World\u003cbr\u003e301. Cock-crowing\u003cbr\u003e302. The Water-fall\u003cbr\u003e303. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT: [from Gondibert Book 2]\u003cbr\u003e304. ANNA TRAPNEL: [from The Cry of a Stone]\u003cbr\u003e305. AN COLLINS: Another Song exciting to spirituall Mirth\u003cbr\u003e306. 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Todd Boli (Independent Scholar), “Among Boccaccio’s Friends: A Profile of Mainardo Cavalcanti”   III SOCIAL CONTEXTS: GENDER, MARRIAGE, AND THE LAW   5. Alessia Ronchetti (University of Cambridge), “Reading Like a Woman: Gendering Compassion in the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta”   6. Grace Delmolino (Columbia University), “The Economics of Conjugal Debt from Gratian’s Decretum to Decameron 2.10: Boccaccio, Canon Law, and the Loss of Interest in Sex”   7. Sara Diaz (Fairfield University), “Authority and Misogamy in Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante”   8. Mary Anne Case (University of Chicago Law School), “What Turns on Whether Women are Human for Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan?”   IV POLITICAL AND AUTHORIAL CONTEXTS: ON FAMOUS WOMEN   9. Elizabeth Casteen (Binghamton University), “On She-Wolves and Famous Women: Boccaccio, Politics, and the Neapolitan Court”   10. 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revelation (chap. 16) 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe thirteenth revelation (chap. 27): Sin is behovely 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus as Mother (chap. 60) 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Alliterative Morte Arthure 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArthur’s fight with the giant of St Michael’s mount 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Thorpe (Fl. 1407) 308 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Testimony Of William Thorpe 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Love (Fl. 1410) 313\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Mirror Of The Blessed Life Of Jesus Christ (1410)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe purpose of this work (chap. 40) 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe scourging (chap. 41) 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe crucifixion (chap. 43) 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe seven last words from the Cross (chap. 44) 317\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Hoccleve (1368–1426) 319\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e From La Male Regle De T. Hoccleve Living it up in London 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Regement Of Princes The sleepless night and meeting with the old man 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoccleve’s troubles 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoccleve’s hard life as a scribe 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChaucer is dead 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA way to remember Chaucer 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The ‘Series’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Complaint of Hoccleve 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Dialogue with a Friend 339\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Lydgate (1371–1449) 343 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Troy-Book\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLamentation upon the fall of Troy (from Book IV) 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Siege Of Thebes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue 345\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Life Of Our Lady\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Commendation of Our Lady at the Nativity (from Book III) 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Dance Macabre 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Fall Of Princes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe letter of Canace to her brother 362\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExclamation on the death of Cyrus 365\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLetter To Gloucester 366\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Testament Of Dan John Lydgate 367\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargery Kempe (C.1373–C.1440) 369\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e From The Book Of Margery Kempe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer first childbirth, and first vision of Christ (chap. 1) 369\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer contract with her husband, 23 June 1413, on the road to Bridlington (chap. 11) 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmong the monks at Canterbury (chap. 13) 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWedded to the Godhead (chap. 36) 373\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBefore the archbishop of York (chap. 52) 374\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer husband’s last illness (chap. 76) 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Of Orleans (1394–1465) 378\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBallade 48: ‘To longe, for shame’ 378\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBallade 70: ‘In the forest of Noyous Hevynes’ 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBallade 72: ‘Whan fresshe Phebus’ 380\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoundel 35: ‘Take, take this cosse’ (with the text of Charles’s French original) 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoundel 37: ‘I prayse nothing’ 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoundel 57: ‘My gostly fadir’ 382\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles meets his new lady (5219–5351) 382\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBallade 96: ‘Syn hit is so we nedis must depart’ 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnonymous Songs And Short Poems, Religious, Comic And Amatory 387\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Adam lay ibowndyn’ 387\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘I syng of a mayden’ 387\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Ther is no rose’ 388\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Lully, lulla, thow litel tiny child’ 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A God and yet a man’ 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Who cannot wepe come lerne at me’ 390\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘In a tabernacle of a toure’ 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Corpus Christi Carol 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChrist Triumphant 394\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Farewell, this world’ 394\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Kyrie, so kyrie’ 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘I have a gentil cok’ 396\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘I dar not seyn’ 397\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Care away for evermore’ 397\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Schoolboy’s Lament 398\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgainst Blacksmiths 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Alone walkyng’ 400\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Myn hertys joy’ 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Westren wynde’ 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove-Poems (By Women?) From The Findern Manuscript 402 1 ‘As in yow restyth my joy and comfort’ 402\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ‘What-so men seyn’ 402\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘My woofull hert, thus clad in payn’ 403\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 (a) ‘Come home, dere herte, from tarieng’ 404\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(b) ‘To you, my joye and my worldly plesaunce’ 404\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(c) ‘There may areste me no pleasance’ 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(d) ‘Welcome be ye, my sovereine’ 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 ‘Continuaunce \/ Of remembraunce’ 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopular Ballads 406\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaint Steven 406\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hunting of the Cheviot 407\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobin Hood and the Monk 413\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReginald Pecock (C.1392\/5–C.1460?) 423\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e From The Repressor Of Overmuch Blaming Of The Clergy  Images not a form of idolatry 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Paston Letters 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargaret Paston to Sir John Paston II 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Brews to John Paston III 427\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe same 427\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargery Brews to John Paston III 427\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe same 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir John Fortescue (C.1395–C.1477) 429\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e From The Governance Of England\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJus regale and Jus politicum et regale 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Thomas Malory (C.1410–1471) 431 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Morte D’arthur, Book 8, ‘The Moste Pyteuous Tale Of The Morte Arthure Saunz Gwerdon’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe accusation and rescue of Guenevere 432\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe vengeance of Sir Gawain 440\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe combat of Lancelot and Gawain 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe last battle and the death of Arthur 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe death of Guenevere and of Lancelot 459\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Caxton (C.1422–1492) 465\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue To Malory’s Morte D’arthur 465\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue To Eneydos 467\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Henryson (C.1430–C.1505) 469\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Testament Of Cresseid 469\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Fables 484\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cock and the Fox 485\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fox and the Wolf 490\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wolf and the Wether 495\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wolf and the Lamb 498\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Dunbar (C.1456–C.1515) 503\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeditation In Winter 503\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChrist In Triumph 504\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Golden Targe 505\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Treatise Of The Two Married Women And The Widow 508\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Timor Mortis Conturbat Me’ 515\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGavin Douglas (C.1475–1522) 519 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Aeneid-Translation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook II, chapter 9 520\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(with Latin of Aeneid, II.544–58)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook VII, Prologue (1–96) 522\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook XIII, Prologue 524\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Hawes (D. After 1521) 529 From The Pastime Of Pleasure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDedication 529\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Graunde Amour met with Fame 530\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tower of Doctrine 533\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe nature of poetic style 534\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFarewell to the world 535\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFarewell to his book 535\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Skelton (C.1460–1529) 536\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Bowge Of Court 536\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Book Of Philip Sparrow 542\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Tunning Of Elinor Rumming 556\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Colin Clout 560\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Garland Of Laurel 565\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First English Life Of Henry V (1513) 571\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe prince of Wales presents himself to his father, Henry IV 571\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Thomas More (1478–1535) 573\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e From The History Of King Richard Iii The fall of lord Hastings 573\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShore’s wife 575\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe duke of Buckingham has Richard acclaimed king 576\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Utopia 578\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRestrictions on travel among the Utopians 579\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow the Utopians regard gold 579\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow the Utopians wage war 580\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe superiority of the Utopian commonwealth 581\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom A Dialogue Of Comfort Against Tribulation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow the Christian prepares himself to die for his faith 583\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Thomas Elyot (C.1490–1546) 585 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Book Named The Governor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe importance of beginning Latin early 585\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy gentlemen’s children are seldom properly educated 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn illustration of the virtue of placability 586\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Tyndale (1494–1536) 588\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e From The Prologue To The New Testament 588\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The New Testament\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe parable of the great supper (Luke 14:12–24) 589\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe nature of love (1 Cor. 13) 589\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Obedience Of A Christian Man That the scripture ought to be in the English tongue 590\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy they will not have the scripture in English 591\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlind mouths 591\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Fish (C.1500–1531) 592\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e From A Supplication For The Beggars (1529) 592\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Roper (1496–1577) 594 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Life Of Sir Thomas More The testimony of master Rich 594\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir David Lindsay (C.1486–1555) 596 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Squire Meldrum Prologue 596\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sea-fight 598\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe wooing of the lady of Gleneagles 600\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Cavendish (C.1499–C.1562) 603 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Life And Death Of Cardinal Wolsey Wolsey’s last journey 603\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Metrical Visions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Complaint of Cardinal Wolsey 605\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) 607 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 ‘The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar’ 608\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e (with Italian of Petrarch, Sonnet 107)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ‘Who-so list to hunt, I knowe where is an hynde’ 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever’ 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘My galy charged with forgetfulnes’ 609\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 ‘Madame, withouten many wordes’ 610\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 ‘They fle from me that sometyme did me seke’ 610\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 ‘What no, perdy, ye may be sure!’ 611\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 ‘Marvaill no more’ 611\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 ‘Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain’ 612\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 ‘To wisshe and want and not obtain’ 613\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 ‘Some-tyme I fled the fyre that me brent’ 614\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 ‘The furyous gonne in his rajing yre’ 614\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 ‘My lute, awake!’ 614\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 ‘In eternum’ 615\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 ‘Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain’ 616\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 ‘To cause accord or to agre’ 617\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 ‘Th’answere that ye made to me, my dere’ 618\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 ‘You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce’ 619\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 ‘What rage is this? what furour of what kynd?’ 619\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 ‘Is it possible?’ 620\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 ‘And wylt thow leve me thus?’ 621\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 ‘Forget not yet the tryde entent’ 621\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 ‘Blame not my lute’ 622\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 ‘What shulde I saye?’ 623\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 ‘Spight hath no powre to make me sadde’ 624\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 ‘Wyth serving still’ 624\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 ‘I abide and abide and better abide’ 625\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 ‘Stond who-so list upon the slipper toppe’ 625\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 ‘Throughout the world, if it wer sought’ 626\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 ‘In court to serve decked with freshe aray’ 626\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Satire 1: ‘Myne owne John Poynz’ 626\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Paraphrase of Ps. 130: De profundis clamavi 629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Leland (C.1506–1552) 630\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e From A New Year’s Gift To Henry Viii 630\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHenry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517–1547) 632 1 ‘When ragyng love with extreme payne’ 632\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ‘The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes’ 633\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘Set me wheras the sonne doth perche the grene’ 633\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘Love, that doth raine and live within my thought’ 634\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 ‘Alas, so all thinges nowe do holde their peace’ 634\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 ‘Geve place, ye lovers, here before’ 635\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 ‘O happy dames, that may embrace’ 635\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 ‘Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exyle’ 637\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 ‘When Windesor walles sustained my wearied arme’ 638\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 ‘So crewell prison howe could betyde, alas’ 638\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 ‘W. resteth here, that quick could never rest’ 640\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 ‘Th’Assyrans king, in peas with fowle desyre’ 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 ‘Marshall, the thinges for to attayne’ 641\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Aeneid-Translation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook II (ll. 654–729) 642\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHugh Latimer (1491–1555) 644 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The ‘Sermon On The Plougher’ 644\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoger Ascham (1515–1568) 646 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Toxophilus, Or, The School Of Shooting Why he writes in English (from the Preface) 646\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe wind on the snow 646\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Schoolmaster\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Italian books and Arthurian romances corrupt the young 647\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Mirror For Magistrates (Second Edition, 1563) 649 From The Induction To The Complaint Of Henry, Duke Of Buckingham,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Thomas Sackville (1536–1608) 649\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Tragedy Of Lord Hastings,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy John Dolman (C.1540–C.1602) 652\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Foxe (1517–1587) 654\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e From Acts And Monuments Of Martyrs Concerning Simon Fish 654\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe behaviour of doctor Ridley and master Latimer at the time of their death (16 October 1555) 655\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Gascoigne (1539–1578) 659 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Steel Glass Exhortation to knights, squires and gentlemen 659\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePray for ploughmen 660\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Spoil Of Antwerp The seizing of the town 661\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmund Spenser 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In bringing together essays by various hands, editors Michael Lieb and John T. Shawcross seek to map what may be termed a new frontier in Milton studies, one that acknowledges the importance of what Milton himself considered to be the work of a lifetime when he offered Paradise Lost to readers in 1667.   While the scholars writing here do not claim that the first edition of Milton's epic should be viewed as supplanting the second and later editions, they do seek to demonstrate the importance of coming to terms with the original ten-book edition both as a work with its own identity and value and as a source of fundamental insight into the nature of the editions that would follow in its wake. Paradise Lost cannot be fully understood without an awareness of the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the forces through which it made its first and subsequent appearances in the world at large.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Back to the Future: \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e 1667\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Lieb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. “More and More Perceiving”: Paraphernalia and Purpose in \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, 1668, 1669\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph Wittreich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Simmons’s Shell Game: The Six Title Pages of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen B. Dobranski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Milton’s 1667 \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e in Its Historical and Literary Contexts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAchsah Guibbory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Royal Fashion of Satan and Charles II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard J. DuRocher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. “Now let us play”: \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e and Pleasure Gardens in Restoration London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Lunger Knoppers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. “[N]ew Laws thou see’st impos’d”: Milton’s Dissenting Angels and the Clarendon Code, 1661–65\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBryan Adams Hampton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Poetic Justice: Plato’s Republic in \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e (1667)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhillip J. Donnelly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. The Mysterious Darkness of Unknowing: \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e and the God Beyond Names\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Bryson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. “That which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness!”: \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, First Edition \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn T. Shawcross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400822530391,"sku":"9780271095462","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271095462.jpg?v=1730471659"},{"product_id":"mans-estate-9780520359758","title":"Mans Estate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402938851671,"sku":"9780520359758","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520359758.jpg?v=1730481911"},{"product_id":"chaucer-to-spenser-9780631198383","title":"Chaucer to Spenser","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Provides first--hand understanding of two centuries of literary culture.  * Gives representation to all kinds of writing that is of a literarya  interest.  * Offers a transgression of the a great dividea  of medieval and Renaissance, and ignores conventional periodization. .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The true proof of an anthology is its classroom performance. . .Pearsall's smorgasbord of short extracts, dressed with first-rate contextualizing commentary and references to just the right secondary literature, inspire much independent investigation and a joyous crop of non- repetitive termpapers.\" \"Above all, it is a pleasure to work with a volume annotated from a lifetimes's learning and leavened by rare, companionable humour. Many moments linger.\" \u003ci\u003eMedium Aevum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAplphabetical List of Authors and Works. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations and Short Titles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronological Table of Dates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMap.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Parliament of Fowls.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Troilus and Criseyde.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Canterbury Tales.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMinor Poems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. William Langland (1375-1380).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Vision of Piers Plowman (c-text).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Letters of John Ball (1381).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. John Trevisa (1402).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Wycliffite Bible (1380-1400).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. 'The Gawain-Poet' (1390).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Sir Gawain and The Green Knight.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Patience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. John Gower 91408).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eConfessio Amantis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Mandeville's Travels (1390-1400).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Cloud of Unknowing (1390-1400).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Julian of Norwich (1342-14180.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Revelations of Divine Love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Alliterative Morte Arthure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. William Thorpe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Testimony of William Thorpe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Nicholas Love (1410).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Thomas Hoccleve (1368-1426).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom La Male Regle De T. Hoccleve.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Regement of Princes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 'The Series'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. John Lydgate (1371-1449).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Troy-Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Siege of Thebes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Life of Our Lady.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Dance Macabre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Fall of Princes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLetter to Gloucester.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Testament of Dan John Lydgate.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Maragret Kempe (1373-1440).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Book of Margery Kempe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Charles of Orleans 91394-1465).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Anonymous Songs and Short Poems, Religious, Comic and Amatory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Love-Poems (By Women?) From The Findern Manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Popular Ballads.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Reginald Pecock (1392\/5- 1460).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. The Paston Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Sir John Fortescue (1395-1477).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Governance of England.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Sir Thomas Malory (1410-1471).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Morte D'Arthur.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. William Caxton (1422-14920.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Robert Henryson (1430-1505).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Testament of Cresseid.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Fables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. William Dunbar (1456-15150.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeditation in Winter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChrist in Triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Golden Targe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Gavin Dougles (1475-1522).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Aeneid-Translation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Stephen Hawes (1521).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Pastime of Pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. John Skelton (1460-1529).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. The First English Life of Henry V (1513).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The History of King Richard III.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Utopia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Book Named the Governor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. William Tyndale (1494-1536).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Prologue to the New Testament.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The New Testament.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Obedience of a Christian Man.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Simon Fish (1500-1531).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. William Roper (1496-1577).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. Sir David Lindsay (1486-1555).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Squire Meldrum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. George Cavendish (1499-1562).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Metrical Visions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. John Leland (1506-15520.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517-1547).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. High Latimer (1491-1555).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The 'Sermon of the Plougher'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. Roger Ascham (1515-1568).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Toxophilus, or, The School of Shooting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Schoolmaster.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. A Mirror fro Magistrates (1563).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. John Foxe (1517-1587).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Acts and Monumnets of Martyrs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. George Gascoigne (1539-1578).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Steel Glass.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Spoil of ANtwerp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTextual Variants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary of Common Hard Words.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403406385495,"sku":"9780631198383","price":91.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631198383.jpg?v=1730483373"},{"product_id":"chaucer-to-spenser-9780631199366","title":"Chaucer to Spenser","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to \u003ci\u003eChaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 -1575.\u003c\/i\u003e It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. 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It is a timely aesthetic study which will be read and re-read by Milton scholars and students. It will be mined for its learning, discussed, challenged, and enjoyed. Literary studies will be so much the better for it.\"--Leah Whittington, The Cambridge Quarterly \"Quint proves a deeply engaging and illuminating guide to the designs, both large and small, of Milton's epic and his career... Quint has a gift for pithy and apt eloquence... There have been many fine books on Milton's epic and its relation to the long epic tradition, but none finer than Quint's.\"--Stephen M. Fallon, Modern Philology \"David Quint's elegant, learned, and nuanced study of Paradise Lost and its designs contains enormous riches... It is a pleasure to read a critical book so sensitive to the rich poetic texture of Milton's work. Thanks to his substantial knowledge of early modern European literature and classical reception, Quint offers a wealth of fresh readings of the poem's allusions to classical and European epics, as well as to scriptural texts.\"--David Loewenstein, Modern Language Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1.MILTON'S BOOK OF NUMBERS: BOOK 1 AND ITS CATALOG 15 The Shape of the Catalog 17 Moloch and Belial 1 18 Moloch and Saturn 1 19 Moloch and Saturn 2: A Miniature Aeneid 20 Moloch and Belial 2: Libya and Sodom 22 Egypt 23 The Catalog and Pandaemonium 24 The Logic of the Similes in Book 1 26 Raising Devils 29 Appendix: Demonic Swashbucklers 35 2.ULYSSES AND THE DEVILS: THE UNITY OF BOOK 2 38 The Council 41 Moloch and Belial Again: Ajax and Ulysses 42 Mammon and Beelzebub: A Thersites Is Rebuked 48 Satan and the Doloneia 50 Meanwhile, Back in Hell ... 52 Milton's Telegony 55 Satan's Odyssey 58 Whose Odyssey? 59 3.FEAR OF FALLING: ICARUS, PHAETHON, AND LUCRETIUS 63 Icarus and Satan's Fall Through Chaos 64 Virgil and Lucretius 64 Dante, Tasso, Ovid 67 Satan Voyager 71 Phaethon, the Son, and the War in Heaven 75 Flight and Fall 85 A Poetry Against Falling 88 4.LIGHT, VISION, AND THE UNITY OF BOOK 3 93 Structure and Design 96 Universal Blank 99 Vision 106 The Sun 109 The Paradise of Fools 111 Sun Worshippers 114 Poetry and Science 118 5.THE POLITICS OF ENVY 122 Envy and the New Dispensation 124 Angels and Courtiers 132 Brotherhood versus Kingship in Books 11-12 144 6.GETTING WHAT YOU WISH FOR: A READING OF THE FALL153 The Seduction of Eve 156 The Second Adam as Second Eve 169 Adam's Choice: \"One flesh\" 176 \"Not vastly disproportionall\" 185 Changing Places 188 Appendix: A Note on the Separation Scene 195 7.REVERSING THE FALL IN BOOK 10 197 Virgilian Coordinates and the End of Satan 200 Creation and Anti-creation 202 Anti-triumphs 203 The Triumphs of the Son 206 Satan's Triumph 208 Adam and the Winds 211 The Recovery of Human Choice 212 Cherishing Eve 218 Dido and Armida; Creusa 219 Pandora 223 The Exposed Matron 229 8.LEAVING EDEN 234 Deconsecrated Earth 236 Good-bye 245 Notes 249 Bibliography 285 Index 301","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403801764183,"sku":"9780691159744","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691159744.jpg?v=1730484588"},{"product_id":"the-authors-hand-and-the-printers-mind-9780745656014","title":"The Authors Hand and the Printers Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. 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It also demonstrates the extensive reach of antiquarian communities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and suggests the existence of networks of textual exchange within England (and even outside of it) that were hitherto unguessed. Any scholar who deals with what Alice S. Miskimin famously called 'the Renaissance Chaucer' should have this book on their shelf.\" * \u003ci\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] suggestive and sensitive book. It is also intensely readable in a way that does not compromise its rigor, as each chapter is written with a rare level of intellectual and stylistic fluency . . . Cook's central point [is] that 'Chaucer' is largely a product of specific audiences and their needs. 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Bringing together book and manuscript history, reception studies, the history of the English language, detailed work on Chaucer as an authorial figure, and a sustained exploration of the developing editorial tradition and broader history of literary and cultural scholarship, she creates a fresh perspective on a very canonical figure's afterlife in a much-studied period.\" * Lucy Munro, King's College, London *","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405739139415,"sku":"9780812250824","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812250824.jpg?v=1730493443"},{"product_id":"the-matter-of-virtue-9780812251418","title":"The Matter of Virtue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf material bodies have inherent, animating powersor virtues, in the premodern sensethen those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matternamely, womencannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. 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Crocker orchestrates the cardinal virtues, their theological addenda, and their feminine supplements to compose a renewed virtue discourse sustained by feminist philosophy, literary studies, and the history of ideas. Crocker has produced a major work that persuasively demonstrates the affordances of virtue across medieval and early modern studies, with implications for how we study, teach, and work, as well as nurse, heal, and love today.\" * Renaissance Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Matter of Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e participates in the much-needed re-embracement of feminist scholarship currently taking place in medieval and early modern studies, and is also informed by recent theoretically inflected work on affect, eco-criticism, and the post-human. Yet its unique and prescient focus on virtuous human work is especially relevant to the pandemic crisis, as the model for ethical living it explores applies well to further crises, from the #MeToo movement to Black Lives Matter to the imperatives of climate change. In short, this revisionist study of Chaucer and Shakespeare comes at a good time… [R]eaders will find within this book a set of richly contextualized paradigms that chart a way forward for a new 'ethical turn' to literary studies.\" * Speculum *\u003cbr\u003e\"At the heart of Holly A. Crocker’s study of premodern virtues lies a posthumanist project that prompts feminist reimaginings of embodied excellence in English vernacular poetics from 1343 through 1623…Crocker’s book leaves us with a critical posthuman feminist call to action that requires each generation of premodern and early modern scholars to rethink and reimagine embodied ways of ethically being in the world together.\" * Comitatus *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Matter of Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eHolly A. Crocker offers a gendered history of virtue. 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Crocker convincingly argues that traditional feminine traits such as obedience and endurance should not be diminished or dismissed as passivity but should be regarded as active performances of an embodied ethics of vulnerability.\" * Mario DiGangi, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Virtues That Matter\u003cbr\u003e PART I. PRESCRIPTIVE FAILURES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Fragility of Virtue, from Chaucer to Lydgate\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Matter of Virtue, from Henryson to Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e PART II. GRACE, ENACTED: ROMANCE AND MATERIAL VIRTUE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Virtue's Grace: Custance and Other Daughters\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Virtue's Knowledge in Lodge and Spenser\u003cbr\u003e PART III. HOMELY VIRTUES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Shrewish Virtue, from Chaucer to Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. 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