RENAISSANCE ARTS AND AESTHETICS / CRITICAL THEORY

Anthologies:
- Arts:
  - Witherspoon, Alexander, and Frank Warnke, eds. Seventeenth Century Prose and Poetry.
- Critical Theory:
  - Hardison, O. B., ed. English Literary Criticism: the Renaissance
  - Smith, Gregory G., ed. Elizabethan Critical Essays. 1904.
  - Spingarn, J. E., ed. Critical Essays of the XVII Century. 3 Vols.
  - Vickery, Brian, ed. English Renaissance Literary Criticism. Oxford: OUP, 1999.
Selected Individual Works:
- Arts:
- Critical Theory:

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Anthologies:
- Critical Theory:
  - Norton, Glyn P., ed. The Renaissance. Vol. 3 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1999.
- Criticism:
Selected Individual Works:
- Critical Theory:
  - Atkins, J. W. H. English Literary Criticism: the Renascence.
  - Daiches, David. "The Poet as Moral Teacher." Critical Approaches to Literature. New York: Norton, 1956. 50-72.
  - Spingarn, J. E. Literary Criticism in the Renaissance. 1899.
  - Weinberg, Bernard. A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance. 2 Vols. 1963.
- Criticism:
  - General:
    - Babcock, Barbara The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society
    - Barker, Francis The Tremulous Private Body: Essays on Subjection
    - Brown, Cedric, ed. Patronage, Politics, and Literary Traditions in England, 1558-1658
    - Burt, Richard, et al., eds. Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property and Culture in Early Modern England
    - Bush, Douglas The Renaissance and English Humanism
    - Corns, Thomas, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell
    - De Grazia, Margaret, et al., eds. Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
    - Demaray, John Cosmos and Epic Representation: Dante, Spenser, Milton and the Transformation of Renaissance Heroic Poetry
    - Dubrow, Heather Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and its Counterdiscourses
    - Dubrow, Heather, et al., eds. The Historical Renaissance: New Essays on Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture
    - Garber, Marjorie, ed. Cannibals, Witches, Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance
    - Greenblatt, Stephen Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture
    - Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance
    - Greenblatt, Stephen Renaissance Self-Fashioning
    - Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. Representing the Renaissance
    - Gregerson, Linda The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton and the Protestant Epic
    - Guillory, John Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton and Literary History
    - Halperin, Richard The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital
    - Helgerson, Richard Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System
    - Kegl, Rosemary The Rhetoric of Concealment: Figuring Gender and Class in Renaissance Literature
    - Kinney, Arthur, et al., eds. Renaissance Historicism
    - Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1964.
    - Leavis, F. R. Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry
    - Lytle, Guy, and Stephen Orgel, eds. Patronage in the Renaissance
    - Malcolmson, Christina, ed. Renaissance Poetry
    - Manley, Lawrence Literature and Culture in Early Modern London
    - Marcus, Leah The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Marvell, and the Defence of Old Holiday Pastimes
    - Norbrook, David Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
    - Parfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
    - Parker, Patricia, et al., eds. Literary Theory / Renaissance Texts
    - Pask, Kevin The Emergence of the English Author
    - Patterson, Annabel Censorship and Interpretation: the Conditions of Writing and Reading in Early Modern England
    - Roche, Thomas Petrarch and the English Sonnet Tradition
    - Rogers, John The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton
    - Sinfield, Alan Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading
    - Stallybrass, Peter, et al., eds. The Politics and Poetics of Transgression
    - Strier, Richard Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism and Renaissance Texts
    - Gary Waller English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century
    - Zunder, William, et al, eds. Writing and the English Renaissance
  - Sixteenth Century:
    - Alpers, Paul, ed. Elizabethan Poetry: Modern Essays in Criticism
    - Berry, Philippa Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen
    - Brown, John Russell, ed. Elizabethan Poetry
    - Crewe, Jonathan Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare
    - Ferry, Anne The ‘Inward’ Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne
    - Hammond, Gerald, ed. Elizabethan Poetry: Lyric and Narrative
    - Heale, Elizabeth Wyatt, Surrey, and Early Tudor Poetry
    - Helgerson, Richard Forms of Nationhood: the Elizabethan Writing of England
    - Helgerson, Richard The Elizabethan Prodigals
    - Herman, P. C., eds. Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays in Early Tudor Texts and Contexts
    - Inglis, Fred The Elizabethan Poets
    - Javitch, Daniel Poetry and Courtliness in Renaissance England
    - Lever, J. W. The Elizabethan Love Sonnet
    - Lewis, C. S. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama
    - Montrose, Louis Adrian "'Eliza, Queene of Shepheardes', and 'the Pastoral of Power'" ELR 10 (1980): 153-182 (also in Arthur Kinney, et al., eds. Renaissance Historicism)
    - Montrose, Louis Adrian "The Elizabethan Subject and the Spenserian Text" (in Patricia Parker, et al., eds. Literary Theory / Renaissance Texts)
    - Montrose, Louis Adrian "A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Shaping Fantasies of Elizabethan Culture: Gender, Power, Form" (in Stephen Greenblatt, ed. Representing the Renaissance)
    - Montrose, Louis Adrian "Of Gentlemen and Shepherds: The Politics of Elizabethan Pastoral Form" ELH 50 (1983): 415-459
    - Montrose, Louis Adrian The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre
    - Pearsall, Derek, ed. Chaucer to Spenser: a Critical Reader
    - Peterson, Douglas The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne
    - Spearing, A. C. Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry
    - Tuve, Rosalind Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery
    - Wright, Louis Middle Class Culture in Elizabethan Britain
    - Yates, Frances Astraea: the Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century
  - Seventeenth Century:
    - Barker, Francis, et al., eds. 1642: Literature and Power in the Seventeenth Century
    - Bloom, Clive, ed. Jacobean Poetry and Prose
    - Bradbury, Malcolm, ed. Metaphysical Poetry
    - Corns, Thomas Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660
    - Dollimore, Jonathan Radical Tragedy
    - Goldberg, Jonathan James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and their Contemporaries
    - Hammond, Gerald Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660
    - Hammond, Gerald, ed. The Metaphysical Poets
    - Harvey, Elizabeth, et al., eds Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth Century English Poetry
    - Healy, Thomas, et al., eds. Literature and the English Civil War
    - Keast, William, ed. Seventeenth Century English Poetry: Modern Essays in Criticism
    - Knights, L. C. Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson
    - Loxley, James Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil War
    - Miner, Earl The Cavalier Mode from Jonson to Cotton
    - Parry, Graham The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1603-1700
    - Post, Jonathan English Lyric Poetry: the Early Seventeenth Century
    - Rivers, Isabel Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
    - Sambrook, James. The Eighteenth Century: the Intellectual and Cultural Context, 1700-1789.
    - Sharpe, Kevin Criticism and Compliment: the Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I
    - Sharpe, Kevin, et al., eds. Politics of Discourse: the Literature and History of Seventeenth Century England
    - Smith, Nigel Literature and Revolution, 1640-1660
    - Summers, Claude, et al., eds. ‘The Muses’ Common-Weale’: Poetry and Politics in the Seventeenth Century
    - Summers, Claude, et al., eds. Classic and Cavalier: Essays on Jonson and the Sons of Ben
    - Summers, Joseph The Heirs of Donne and Jonson
    - Turner, James The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry, 1630-1660
    - White, Helen The Metaphysical Poets
    - Wilding, Michael Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution
    - Zwicker, Stephen Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture
    - Zwicker, Stephen, et al., eds. Politics of Discourse: the Literature and History of Seventeenth Century England
  - Topics:
    - Classicism:
      - Bush, Douglas Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry
      - Highet, G. The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
      - Martindale, Charles Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
      - Miles, Geoffrey, ed. Classical Mythology in English Literature: a Critical Anthology
      - Quint, David Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton
      - Lord, George Classical Presences in Seventeenth Century English Poetry
      - Rivers, Isabel Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: a Student’s Guide
      - Sowerby, Robin The Classical Legacy in Renaissance Poetry
      - Thomson, J. A. K. The Classical Background of English Literature
      - Thomson, J. A. K. Classical Influences on English Poetry
      - Tillyard, E. M. W. The English Epic and its Background
    - Christianity:
      - Lewalski, Barbara Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric
      - Low, Anthony Love’s Architecture: Devotional Modes in Seventeenth Century English Poetry
      - Martz, Louis The Poetry of Meditation: a Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century
      - Martz, Louis The Poem of the Mind
      - Rivers, Isabel Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
      - Roberts, John, ed. New Perspectives on the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric
      - Shuger, Deborah The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity
      - Sinfield, Alan Literature in Protestant England 1550-1660
      - Summers, Claude, et al., eds. ‘Bright Shootes of Everlastingnesse’: the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric
    - Genres:
      - Alpers, Paul What is Pastoral?
      - Colie, Rosalie Resources of Kind: Genre-Theory in the Renaissance
      - Empson, William Some Versions of Pastoral
      - Fletcher, Angus Allegory: Theory of a Symbolic Mode
      - Gifford, Terry Pastoral
      - Gregerson, Linda The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton and the Protestant Epic
      - Highet, G. The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
      - Kermode, Frank English Pastoral Poetry: from the Beginnings to Marvell
      - Lewalski, Barbara Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History and Interpretation
      - Lever, J. W. The Elizabethan Love Sonnet
      - Marinelli, Peter Pastoral
      - Martindale, Charles Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
      - Oppenheimer, Paul The Birth of the Modern Mind: Self, Consciousness, and the Invention of the Sonnet
      - Patterson, Annabel Pastoral and Ideology: Virgil to Valery
      - Peterson, Douglas The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne
      - Poggioli, Renato The Oaten Flute: Essays on Pastoral Poetry and the Pastoral Ideal
      - Quilligan, Maureen The Language of Allegory: Defining the Genre
      - Quint, David Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton
      - Tillyard, E. M. W. The English Epic and its Background
      - Williams, Raymond The Country and the City

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