1st Edition

Sir John Denham (1614/15-1669) Reassessed The State's Poet

Edited By Philip Major Copyright 2016
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Sir John Denham (1614/15–1669) Reassessed shines new light on a singular, colourful yet elusive figure of seventeenth-century English letters. Despite his influence as a poet, wit, courtier, exile, politician and surveyor of the king's works, Denham, remains a neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary collection provide the sustained modern critical attention his life and... Read more
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Biography

Dr Philip Major is an Associate Lecturer in English literature at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration. He has edited a collection of essays on Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640–1685, and on Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-century English Stage, and co-edited England's Fortress: New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax. He has written articles on seventeenth-century literature for a variety of peer-review journals, including The Times Literary Supplement, The Review of English Studies, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme, and The Seventeenth Century, and also has chapters in a number of edited collections.