G. K. Hunter

Preface The essays in this collection are intended to illuminate the assumptions, the variety, and the achievement of the non-dramatic poetry written in the reign of Elizabeth I. The first section is devoted to the problem of poetics that has most concerned students of this period and that most...

Preface This present volume completes the Oxford History of English Literature Series, the earliest volumes of which were published in 1945. The space of time between the first volume and the last has seen a revolution (or even a series of revolutions) in the notion of what literary history is...

PREFACE CERTAIN FEATURES of this book spring from an original intention to write a short critical account of Lyly's work, concentrating on what was of aesthetic value and leaving scholarly problems and documentation for my Clarendon Press edition of the Works. This did not prove possible; I have...