An Anthology of Elizabethan Poetry

Download or read book An Anthology of Elizabethan Poetry written by Sukanta Chaudhuri and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy but wide-ranging selection of Elizabethan poetry covers all the major poets and most of the important genres cultivated in that age. Sukanta Chaudhuri traces Elizabethan poetry from its beginnings, dividing it by type of verse--pastoral, Elizabethan sonnet, lyrics, the Epyllion, and didactic poetry. Poets represented include Sir Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spencer, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, and Michael Drayton, among others.