 | Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Kings and rulers as poets -- Great Britain -- History; Kings and rulers in literature; Monarchy in literature; Politics in literature; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors 1485–1603; Great; The first book to address the significance of a poems produced by the Tudor-Stuart monarchs, focusing on how how the monarchs' poems express and extend their power and control. Peter C. Herman is Professor of English at San Diego State University. He is author of Destabilizing Milton: "Paradise Lost" and the Poetics of Incertitude and Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment. |
