The individual
author pages contain extensive full-text collections
of poetry, together with information on lives
and lists of critical reading. There are sites
on women poets (Mary Herbert, Aemilia Lanyer,
Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips)
and on schools such as the Metaphysicals and the
Cavalier Poets. Each poet has his or her own musical
accompaniment.
For more scholarly editions of Renaissance poetry,
as well as many works in other genres you should
try Renascence Editions, which contains
about 140 texts, including Daniel's Defence
of Rhyme, Gascoigne's The Steele Glas,
Sidney's Astrophel and Stella and Defence
of Poesie, and an impressive collection of
works by Spenser. Another good site containing
texts by Renaissance writers is OpenHere’s
section on sixteenth century literature.
Neil Rhodes is Professor of English at the University
of St Andrews. He received his M.A. and D.Phil.
from Oxford. His areas of specialisation include
Renaissance literature and culture, especially
Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson and James VI and I;
eloquence, rhetoric and the origins of English;
early modern encyclopedism and the pre-history
of the computer; modern British and Irish poetry.
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Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749
Renascence Editions
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
OpenHere pages on sixteenth century
literature
http://www.openhere.com/arts/literature/world-literature/british-literature/16th-century/
More specialised sites:
Elizabethan sonneteers
http://members.aol.com/ericblomqu/eliz.htm
Searchable texts of Marlowe’s
work
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html
Seventeenth-century women poets
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/kurse/17c/index.htm
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