Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 articles from January 1999

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 archives from January 1999

Anonymity's revelations in 'The Arte of English Poesie.'.
January 1, 1999... Anonymity was a familiar signature to late Elizabethan readers, whether they perused the pastoral eclogues in the Shepheardes Calender, the acrostics on Elizabeth's name in Hymnes of Astraea, the satirical Metamorphosis of Ajax, or the many...

Gabriel Harvey and the practice of Method.
January 1, 1999... One of Gabriel Harvey's first published writings as a young scholar was the Ode Natalitia, a 1574 elegy for the French Protestant martyr and controversial logician Pierre de la Ramee (Peter Ramus). In this elegy, "Method" serves as "a heavenly...

"Her filthy feature open showne" in Ariosto, Spenser, and 'Much Ado about Nothing.'.(playwrights Ludovico Ariosto and Edmund Spenser)
January 1, 1999... Scholars have long identified Ludovico Ariosto's famous tale of Ariodante and Ginevra as the primary source for Edmund Spenser's Phedon-Claribell episode in book 2 of The Faerie Queene.(1) They also typically cite Spenser's and Ariosto's...

Anne Dowriche's 'The French History,' Christopher Marlowe, and Machiavellian agency.
January 1, 1999... Among the new perspectives on English literary history recently brought to light by the recovery of early modern female writers, one of the most intriguing is the interest shared by two women in historical subjects dramatized by Christopher...

Carew's response to Jonson and Donne.(poets Thomas Carew, Ben Jonson and John Donne)
January 1, 1999... Thomas Carew's verse letter to Ben Jonson and his elegy on John Donne are arguably two of the most accomplished examples of literary criticism in English verse. Given the stature of their respective subjects, it is perhaps no surprise that...

The Crashavian mother.(Richard Crashaw)
January 1, 1999... Richard Crashaw's graphic depictions of the body seem to consternate scholars far less than they once did, in part because an artistic focus on wounds, blood, and milk can be read as influenced by the various religious and intellectual...

Milton, marriage, and a woman's right to divorce.(John Milton)
January 1, 1999... Milton's reliance on John Selden's Uxor Hebraica [Jewish Wife] (1646) as a major source for his final position on divorce has been increasingly argued by a number of Milton's critics since Eivion Owen's pioneering essay in 1946.(1) In a recent...

Edmund Waller's sacred poems.
January 1, 1999... At seventy-nine, Edmund Waller published the slim volume Divine Poems (1685). Augmented with a summary statement "Of the Last Verses in the Book," these fruits of his late rebirth as a sacred poet crowned the final collected edition of his...

Recent studies in the English Renaissance.(includes a list of the 109 books received by the author for the study)
January 1, 1999... The 109 books received represent an impressive level of achievement and display a broad range of strategies for studying "the English Renaissance" at a time when the term itself is regarded with suspicion in many quarters. Boomlets and...