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The Selected Poems of Fulke Greville
Fulke Greville
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Description for The Selected Poems of Fulke Greville
Paperback. A collection of Fulke Greville's short poems that includes the whole of his lyric sequence, "Caelica", along with choruses from some of his verse dramas. Editor(s): Gunn, Thom. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 206.
Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was an important member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although his poems are today less well known than those of Sidney, Spenser, or Shakespeare, Greville left an indelible mark on the world of Renaissance poetry, both in his love poems, which ably work within the English Petrarchan tradition, and in his religious meditations, which, along with the work of Donne and Herbert, stand as a high point of early Protestant poetics. Back in print for a new generation of scholars and readers, Thom Gunn's selection of Greville's ... Read more
Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was an important member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although his poems are today less well known than those of Sidney, Spenser, or Shakespeare, Greville left an indelible mark on the world of Renaissance poetry, both in his love poems, which ably work within the English Petrarchan tradition, and in his religious meditations, which, along with the work of Donne and Herbert, stand as a high point of early Protestant poetics. Back in print for a new generation of scholars and readers, Thom Gunn's selection of Greville's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226308463
SKU
V9780226308463
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About Fulke Greville
Thom Gunn (1929-2004) is the author of nine books of poems, including The Man with Night Sweats and Boss Cupid.
Reviews for The Selected Poems of Fulke Greville
"In these poems the body cries out in pain at the rejections it is being forced to make, and in the note of the cry we recognize the very humanity it is a cry against." - Thom Gunn, from the Introduction"