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Manuscript verse collectors and the politics of anti-courtly love poetry

Eckhardt, Joshua.

Manuscript verse collectors and the politics of anti-courtly love poetry [electronic resource] / Joshua Eckhardt. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 306 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is an analyis of the contribution to literary history of early 17th century hand-written English poetry anthologies. Compiled by manuscript verse collectors, these anthologies preserved a number of pieces by major authors of the English Renaissance, yet they tended to surround them with unprintable verses on sex and politics.

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Love poetry, English--History and criticism.
English poetry--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Manuscripts, English (Middle)--Collectors and collecting.
Politics and literature--History--England--17th century.

PR535.L7

821.3093543