Early Modern English Poetry A Critical Companion Edited by The Pennsylvania State University University of Sussex Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. The Pennsylvania State University New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007
Contents CONTENTS: THEMATIC AND GENERIC PREFACE SELECT CHRONOLOGY, 1503-1681 INTRODUCTION: READING RENAISSANCE POETRY vii xi xiv xix 1 Inventing English Verse 1 Susanne Woods 2 Print, Manuscripts, and Miscellanies 15 Arthur F. Marotti 3 Tudor and Stuart Defenses of Poetry 27 Peter C. Herman 4 Wyatt, Surrey, and the Henrician Court 38 Catherine Bates 5 Spenser's May Eclogue and Mid-Tudor Religious Poetry 48 John N. King 6 Early Courtier Verse: Oxford, Dyer, and Gascoigne 60 Steven May 7 Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Petrarchism 70 William J. Kennedy 8 Spenserian Pastoral 79 Bart van Es 9 Spenser's Poetry and the Apocalypse 90 John Watkins 10 Spenser, Virginity, and Sexuality 102 Elizabeth D. Harvey 11 Raleigh, the Queen, and Elizabethan Court Poetry 113 12 Marlowe's Erotic Verse 125 Alan Sinfield
vi CONTENTS 13 Literary Criticism, Literary History, and the Place of Homoeroticism 136 Jonathan Goldberg 14 "The Phoenix and the Turtle," Renaissance Elegies, and the Language of Grief 147 Lynn Enterline 15 Shakespeare's Literary Career and Narrative Poetry 160 16 Shakespeare's Sonnets and English Sonnet Sequences 172 Sasha Roberts 17 Mary Sidney Herbert and Women's Religious Verse 184 Danielle Clarke 18 Lady Mary Wroth and Women's Love Poetry 195 Naomi J. Miller 19 Donne's Songs and Sonets and Artistic Identity 206 20 Satire and the Politics of Town 217 21 Donne's Religious Poetry and the Trauma of Grace 229 Achsah Guibbory 22 Lanyer and the Poetry of Land and Devotion 240 23 Jonson, King, and Court 253 24 George Herbert, God, and King 264 25 Crashaw and Religious Bias in the Literary Canon 278 Lowell Gallagher 26 Cavalier Poetry and Civil War 289 Laura Lunger Knoppers 27 Marvell and Pastoral 302 Thomas Healy 28 Milton, the Nativity Ode, the Companion Poems, and Lycidas 315 Barbara K. Lewalski NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 331 INDEX 335
Contents: Thematic and Generic Authorship Career Shakespeare's Literary Career and Narrative Poetry 160 Donne's Songs and Sonets and Artistic Identity 206 Shakespeare's Literary Career and Narrative Poetry 160 Civil War Court Elegies Cavalier Poetry and Civil War 289 Laura Lunger Knoppers Wyatt, Surrey, and the Henrician Court 38 Catherine Bates Early Courtier Verse: Oxford, Dyer, and Gascoigne 60 Steven May Raleigh, the Queen, and Elizabethan Court Poetry 113 Jonson, King, and Court 253 "The Phoenix and the Turtle," Renaissance Elegies, and the Language of Grief 147 Lynn Enterline Milton, the Nativity Ode, the Companion Poems, and Lycidas 315 Barbara K. Lewalski vii
viii CONTENTS: THEMATIC AND GENERIC Literary Criticism Tudor and Stuart Defenses of Poetry 27 Peter C. Herman Literary Criticism, Literary History, and the Place of Homoeroticism 136 Jonathan Goldberg Crashaw and Religious Bias in the Literary Canon 278 Lowell Gallagher Monarchy Raleigh, the Queen, and Elizabethan Court Poetry 113 Jonson, King, and Court 253 George Herbert, God, and King 264 Narrative Poetry Pastoral Shakespeare's Literary Career and Narrative Poetry 160 Milton, the Nativity Ode, the Companion Poems, and Lycidas 315 Barbara K. Lewalski Spenserian Pastoral 79 Bart van Es Marvell and Pastoral 302 Thomas Healy Petrarchism Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Petrarchism 70 William J. Kennedy Poetics/Prosody/Meter Inventing English Verse 1 Susanne Woods
Contents: Thematic and Generic ix Politics Wyatt, Surrey, and the Henrician Court 38 Catherine Bates Early Courtier Verse: Oxford, Dyer, and Gascoigne 60 Steven May Raleigh, the Queen, and Elizabethan Court Poetry 113 Jonson, King, and Court 253 Printing George Herbert, God, and King 264 Satire and the Politics of Town 217 Cavalier Poetry and Civil War 289 Laura Lunger Knoppers Print, Manuscripts, and Miscellanies 15 Arthur F. Marotti Religion Spenser's May Eclogue and Mid-Tudor Religious Poetry 48 John N. King Spenser's Poetry and the Apocalypse 90 John Watkins Mary Sidney Herbert and Women's Religious Verse 184 Danielle Clarke Donne's Religious Poetry and the Trauma of Grace 229 Achsah Guibbory Lanyer and the Poetry of Land and Devotion 240 George Herbert, God, and King 264 Crashaw and Religious Bias in the Literary Canon 278 Lowell Gallagher
x CONTENTS: THEMATIC AND GENERIC Satire Satire and the Politics of Town 217 Sexuality Sonnets Spenser, Virginity, and Sexuality 102 Elizabeth D. Harvey Marlowe's Erotic Verse 125 Alan Sinfield Literary Criticism, Literary History, and the Place of Homoeroticism 136 Jonathan Goldberg Sidney's Astrophil and Stella and Petrarchism 70 William J. Kennedy Shakespeare's Sonnets and English Sonnet Sequences 172 Sasha Roberts Donne's Songs and Sonets and Artistic Identity 206 Topography Lanyer and the Poetry of Land and Devotion 240 Urban Poetry Satire and the Politics of Town 217 Women's Writing Mary Sidney Herbert and Women's Religious Verse 184 Danielle Clarke Lady Mary Wroth and Women's Love Poetry 195 Naomi J. Miller Lanyer and the Poetry of Land and Devotion 240