Royal Poetrie
ISBN: 9780801459825
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Politics in literature.; Monarchy in literature.; Kings and rulers in literature.; Kings and rulers as poets; English poetry;

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.

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