Poet and playwright Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was a great favorite at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. This volume includes A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney--written about his close friend and revealing much of the "human" side of Sidney--and the incomplete Letter to An Honourable Lady, previously available only in collections of Greville's writings. This edition is modernized to make it more accessible and includes a substantial commentary, a glossary, and an index.
Poet and playwright Sir Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was a great favorite at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. This volume includes A Dedication to Sir Ph...
Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville (1554 1628) was an important member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although his poems, long out of print, are today less well known than those of Sidney, Spenser, or Shakespeare, Greville left an indelible mark on the world of Renaissance poetry, both in his love poems, which ably work within the English Petrarchan tradition, and in his religious meditations, which, along with the work of Donne and Herbert, stand as a highpoint of early Protestant poetics.
Back in print for a new generation of scholars and readers,...
Along with his childhood friend Sir Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville (1554 1628) was an important member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Although h...
