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Elizabethan Lyrics: From the Original Texts

Elizabethan Lyrics: From the Original Texts

Ault, Norman

Hardcover

Poetry AnthologiesPoetry CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 1025627180
ISBN13: 9781025627182
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 562
Weight: 2.11
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Elizabethan Lyrics: From the Original Texts is an extensive and scholarly anthology that captures the vibrant spirit and artistic excellence of the English Renaissance. This collection brings together a diverse array of poems from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, meticulously curated to represent the full breadth of the Elizabethan era's lyrical achievement. The volume features works by iconic figures such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Philip Sidney, while also reviving numerous anonymous verses and works by lesser-known poets of the period.

The anthology explores a wide range of themes central to the Elizabethan consciousness, from the complexities of courtly love and pastoral idealism to reflections on mortality and the natural world. By sourcing poems directly from original manuscripts and early printed books, the work provides an authentic look at the linguistic and rhythmic innovations that defined the Golden Age of English literature.

This collection illustrates the evolution of the English sonnet, the madrigal, and the air, highlighting the period's unique intersection of music and verse. Elizabethan Lyrics: From the Original Texts serves as an essential resource for students of literature and a treasure trove for any reader interested in the profound cultural and artistic flourishing of the Tudor era.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

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