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Article: Review of George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres.(Book Review)
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- Early Modern Literary Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Matthew Steggle. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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George Gascoigne. A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres. Ed. G.W. Pigman III. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. lxv+781 pp. ISBN 0 19 811779 5.
Adam Smyth
University of Reading
a.smyth@reading.ac.uk
Smyth, Adam. "Review of George Gascoigne. A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres. Ed. G.W. Pigman III." Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (September, 2002): 11.1-5
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Henry R. Plomer declared George Gascoigne's A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) "one of those bibliographical eccentricities which it seems hopeless to explain," and the printer's preface to Gascoigne's text notes, with comic understatement, that the book has "a greater commoditie than common poesies ...