ENGLISH POETRY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (2nd Revised Edition)

London, UK: Hutchinson Univ Library, 1967. 2nd Revised Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Very Good w/red underlining to pgs 42, 55 & 56, else As New. Soft cover/Very Good w/wear to corner tips & lifting laminate. PO name strike-out to fEP. First published 1955. This is the 2nd Revised Edition of 1967; published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. Analysis of 16th century English Poetry as a historical record of interaction between Renaissance Humanism & native English traditions. Rigorous selection of verse exercised. 184 pgs in 8 chapters: 1, Cross-currents of the Renaissance; 2, Poetic theory & practice; 3, John Skelton & early Tudor poetry; 4, Wyatt & Surrey; 5, Shorter forms of Elizabethan poetry; 6, Historical poetry; 7, The Fairie Queene; and 8, Conclusion: the end of the century.