Thoemmes Press
Elizabethan Poetry - 3 volume set
A Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse, 1559-1603
The accumulation of twelve years of research, this interdisciplinary Renaissance reference work provides a definitive finding list for printed and manuscript poetry texts for the Elizabethan period. It lists over 32,500 poems from over 3,400 books and 750 manuscripts, locating all poems ascribed to a given author, and finding all texts upon which critical editions of poems are based. Each poem is subject indexed to provide rapid and thorough interdisciplinary control over this important canon. Thus, poems on such diverse subjects as alchemy, astrology, libel, marriage, politics, royal entertainments, satire, tobacco, and witchcraft, and personalities such as Cressida, Henry IV of France, Hercules, Mary Magdalene, Pope Joan and William the Conqueror are listed. Each record provides a fully cross-referenced profile of the poems, including, as relevant, texts and locations, technical format, author, date of imprint/transcription, number of lines, burden or refrain, title, editions/scholarship.
· The Index will be an invaluable reference source at undergraduate and graduate level in literature, Classics, art, music and history, including the history of science and philosophy.
· Completes the Tudor verse indexing project designed by the late William A. Ringler, Jr.
· The detailed subject index provides subject access to more than one third of all extant printed books from Queen Elizabeth 1's reign
· Cross-indexing locates translation sources, illustrations, musical settings, composers, and literary genres, as well as topics treated within the work
· Interdisciplinary - provides an enormous quarry of information about all aspects of English Renaissance culture.
ISBN 0 82647 278 8
3 volumes: 2300 pp: Cloth : 276 x 219 mm
Price: £495.00
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