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Hailed as "King of Poets" by Johann Reuchlin in 1514, Eobanus Hessus (1488-1540) was eager to build on his fame with a stream of new works: "Easter Hymn," "On True Nobility," "On the Avoidance of Drunkenness," "Response from His Majesty Maximilian" (answering Hutten's "Letter from Italia"), and the short epic "Christ's Victory over the Underworld," as well as a hitherto unknown "Inaugural Lecture" on Cicero and Plautus. In 1515 he anonymously published a mock-quodlibetical speech that applies the scholastic method of argumentation to "The Species of Drunkards." Eobanus' first bestseller, this...

The final two volumes in the CWE contain an edition and translation of Erasmus's poetry. For Erasmus scholars this work affords the first opportunity to evaluate and analyse Erasmus' poems in English. And for those interested in Renaissance and Reformation poetry in general, these offer an intriguing look at the work of one of the towering figures of the period writing in a genre that was, for him, unusual.

The annotations include a path-breaking commentary piece by Harry Vredeveld on Erasmus' most famous poem, Poem on the Trouble of Old Age.' Another important feature is the...