This comprehensive anthology contains selections from the work of twenty-five poets of the sixteenth century. Employing the original, rather than normalized, te

A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

Alistair Fowler's celebrated anthology includes generous selections from the work of all the century's major poets, notably Donne, Jonson, Milton, Drayton, Herb

This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from les