1st Edition
The Making and Marketing of Tottel's Miscellany, 1557 Songs and Sonnets in the Summer of the Martyrs' Fires
By J. Christopher Warner
Copyright 2013
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in the summer of 1557 - as the protestant martyrs’ pyres blazed across England - Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other (more generally known as Tottel’s Miscellany) is widely regarded as the first anthology of English poetry responsible for introducing Italianate verse forms to England. Yet those scholars who have... Read more
Introduction: From Printer to Reader; Chapter 1 “The workes of diuers Latines, Italians, and other”; Chapter 2 “To do as praiseworthely as the rest”; Chapter 3 “Thinke it not euill doon”;
Biography
J. Christopher Warner is Professor of English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, USA.
'Warner's monograph presents a wealth of textual and contextual detail that will have to be further explored ... [his] reconstruction of the contemporary English publishing context in poetry focuses extensively on formal matters and reveals the dazzling variety of poetic forms that Tottel presents.' Spenser Review 'One of the book's most significant contributions to the history of publishing in the Tudor period is its detailed comparative analysis of Tottel's Miscellany in relation both to the wider European book trade, in particular the production of Continental books of lyric verse and their dissemination in England, and to books of English verse coming off the London presses at this time.' SHARP News
