Renaissance Poetry (Hardcover)

Explores the changes that have occurred in the interpretation of English Renaissance poetry in the 20 years up to 1998. The introduction looks at how critical approaches have transformed traditional accounts of literary history by analyzing the role of poetry in nationalism, the changing associations of poetry and class-status, and the rediscovered writings of women.;The collection represents many of the critical methodologies which have contributed to these changes: new historicism, cultural materialism, feminism, and an historically informed psychoanalytic criticism.