TY - DATA AU - Bates, Catherine, AU - Cheney, Patrick, TI - Sixteenth-century British poetry SN - 9780191954573 (ebook) : U1 - 821.209 PY - 2022/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - English poetry KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism N2 - 'Sixteenth-Century British Poetry' features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830696.001.0001 ER -