Article: Early Modern English Poetry. A Critical Companion.(Book review)

Early Modern English Poetry. A Critical Companion. Ed. by Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. xxiii + 342 pp. 21.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-515387-3.

This is an exceptionally useful collection of introductory essays on English verse from Wyatt and Surrey to Marvell and Crashaw. The editors introduce their contributors as 'expert academics' but this is to undersell the starry galaxy they have assembled. It is relatively rare to find scholars of this eminence attempting to summarize knowledge on a particular author or kind of writing for undergraduate beginners, and most of the contributors ...

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