The Renaissance (1929) (Paperback)

This anthology of English Literature includes the time period known as the Renaissance. The Renaissance, as the period which effects the change into modernism has been called, was the rebirth of an attitude toward life which medieval thought had stifled. The renaissance man was awakened to the possibility of beauty and gratification in this mortal life. He did not abandon religion, but he enlarged his life to include many new interests. Partial Contents: early Tudor lyrics; Sir Thomas Wyatt; Henry Howard; John Heywood; Lord Vaux Thomas; Thomas Norton; Thomas Sackville; John Foxe; Roger Ascham; Ralph Holinshed; John Lyly; Sir Philip Sidney; Edmund Spenser; Sir Walter Raleigh; Christopher Marlowe; Elizabethan Lyrics; George Gascoigne; Anthony Munday; Sir Edward Dyer; George Peele; Thomas Lodge; Nicholas Breton; Robert Southwell; Samuel Daniel; William Shakespeare; Thomas Campion; Michael Drayton; John Fletcher; John Donne; Robert Greene; Thomas Nashe; Thomas Decker; Francis Bacon; Ben Johnson; notes.