This comprehensive anthology of English poetry, from the Elizabethan age to the Restoration, places canonised poets–Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Herbert—in conjunction with poets not usually found in anthologies—Margaret Cavendish, Isabella Whitney, Mary Wroth, among others. The anthology is introduced with a comprehensive introduction which presents the socio-political and intellectual backgrounds to the literature of this era before offering samples of the major kinds of poetry from th. ..
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