Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance

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Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance is written by David Norbrook and published by Oxford University Press, USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199247196 (ISBN 10) and 9780199247196 (ISBN 13).

This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists, responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.