From Samuel Daniel: epistle to Sir Thomas Egerton, Knight

Author(s):  
Samuel Daniel ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Author(s):  
Katarzyna Lecky

If maps are instruments of power, then it matters that in Renaissance Britain they were often found in the pockets of ordinary people. Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance demonstrates how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. It places chapbooks (“cheapbooks”) by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton into conversation with the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era’s de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.


1979 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Clark Hulse
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Author(s):  
Jonathan F. S. Post

‘Poet and playwright’ explains that, in many regards, the single most important point about Shakespeare’s double life as poet and playwright is how fruitful this generic crisscrossing was for him artistically. His poems and sonnets have an earthy, psychological, and theatrical element to them rarely found among his more exclusively elite poetic contemporaries like Spenser and Samuel Daniel. Shakespeare wrote poems to connect with the elite and the financial rewards that might come from patronage. He wrote drama to survive. However, from the period 1593-1623, the narrative poems constituted an astonishing 40 per cent of all Shakespeare’s published works.


1988 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-488
Author(s):  
MARTIN DZELZAINIS
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Author(s):  
Juan Frau

El propósito de este artículo es examinar las teorías del Renacimiento inglés sobre la rima y la polémica acerca de su conveniencia para la versifi cación inglesa. Los críticos y poetas isabelinos estaban divididos en dos facciones opuestas: una que defi ende los modelos clásicos y trata de rescatar el verso cuantitativo, y por lo tanto rechaza la rima, y otra que acepta la rima como una característica esencial del verso de la época. Samuel Daniel, Thomas Campion, Philip Sidney y Edmund Spenser, entre otros, toman parte en este debate


Author(s):  
Warren Boutcher

Chapter 2.3 analyses the English school of Montaigne in the context of the relationship between Renaissance education and the early modern nobility. The Englished Montaigne––translated by John Florio and dramatized by Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and others––was introduced as a critic of the tyranny of custom and as a participant in the aristocratic culture of private learning in the late Elizabethan, early Jacobean noble household. Documents discussed range from the paratexts to Florio’s translation and the English text of ‘Of the institution and education of children’ to James Cleland’s work on the same subject and the famous portrait of Lady Anne Clifford. The chapter ends by offering a new perspective on Shakespeare’s use of Florio’s translation in The Tempest: that we should understand it in relation to Samuel Daniel’s use of similar passages in a play staged for the 1605 royal progress to the University of Oxford: The Queenes Arcadia.


1884 ◽  
Vol s6-IX (227) ◽  
pp. 359-359
Author(s):  
E. Walford
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1966 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Patricia Thomson ◽  
Joan Rees

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