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Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First Line Index of English Verse, 1559-1603 3 Volume Set

Autor Professor Steven W. May
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2004
This interdisciplinary Renaissance reference work, provides a definitive finding list for printed and manuscript poetry texts for the Elizabethan period. Lists over 32,500 poems and over 3,400 books and manuscripts, locating all poems ascribed to a given author, and finding all texts upon which critical editions of poems are based. The index provides rapid and thorough interdisciplinary control over this important canon. Each record provides a fully cross-referenced profile of the poems, including, as relevant, texts and locations, technical format, author, date of imprint/transcription, number of lines, burden or refrain, title, editions/scholarship. Poems covered include subjects as diverse as alchemy, astrology, libel, marriage, politics, royal entertainments, satire, tobacco, and withcraft, and personalties such as Cressida, Henry IV of France, Hercules, Mary Magdalene, Pope Joan and William the Conqueror.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826472786
ISBN-10: 0826472788
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 235 x 297 x 146 mm
Greutate: 6.8 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface;
Introduction;
List of abbreviations
Bibliography of Printed Documents Containing English Verse, 1559-1603
Bibliography of Manuscripts Containing English Verse Transcribed 1559-1603
First-Line Index of English Verse 1559-1603
Indexes

Recenzii

[O]ne cannot but applaud the almost titanic effort to produce it, and gladden at the marveloud result we have before our eyes... it will undoubtedly remain the Index for anyone studying Elizabethan poetry for a very long time.
"When the richness of the data provided by this book is taken into consideration one cannot but applaud the almost titanic effort to produce it, and gladden at the marvelous result we have before our eyes...it will undoubtedly remain the Index for anyone studying Elizabethan poetry for a very long time." -Notes and Queries, March 2006
'...an invaluable entry point for historians of Elizabethan literature, music, art, social life, religion, medicine and much else. Any self-respecting library should acquire it before it goes out of print.'
"Anyone who uses this Bibliography will feel properly humbled by the dimensions of a work produced with such sustained energy, and no doubt at the cost of many personal sacrifices"   "remarkable"   "An invaluable entry point for historians of Elizabethan literature, music, art, social life, religion, medicine and much else. Any self-respecting library should acquire it"