{"product_id":"manuscript-verse-collectors-and-the-politics-of-anti-courtly-love-poetry-9780199559503","title":"Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book reappraises the work of early-seventeenth-century collectors of English Renaissance poetry in manuscript. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe verse miscellanies, or poetry anthologies, of these collectors, have long attracted the attention of literary editors looking for texts by individual, major authors, and they\u003cbr\u003ehave more recently interested historians for their poems on affairs of state, called verse libels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy contrast, this book investigates the relationships that the compilers of miscellanies established between such presumably literary and political texts. It focuses on two of the most popular, and least printable, literary genres that they collected: libels, and anti-courtly love poetry, a literary mode that the collectors of John Donne's poems played a major role in establishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey made Donne the most popular poet in manuscripts of the period, and they demonstrated a special affinity for his most erotic or obscene poems, such as 'To His Mistress going to Bed' and 'The Anagram'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDonne collectors also exhibited the similarities between these Ovidian love elegies and the sexually explicit or counter-Petrarchan verse of other authors, thereby organizing a literary genre opposed to the conventions of courtly love lyrics. Furthermore, collectors politicized this genre by relating examples of it to libels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn so doing, manuscript verse collectors demonstrated a type of literary and political activity distinct from that of authors, stationers, and readers. Based on a thorough investigation of manuscript verse miscellanies, the book appeals to scholars and students of early modern English literature and history, Donne studies, manuscript studies, and the history of the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Eckhardt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199559503\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Eckhardt teaches sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39934222729331,"sku":"0199559503","price":145.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3949e6db-1e54-492b-a58f-a21badb1d23e.jpg?v=1647878158","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/manuscript-verse-collectors-and-the-politics-of-anti-courtly-love-poetry-9780199559503","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}