English Renaissance Literary Criticism

This is the first comprehensive collection of English Renaissance literary criticism to appear for nearly a century. Brian Vickers has brought together a wide-ranging selection of texts some well-known (such as Sir Philip Sidney''s Apology for Poetry the most brilliant critical essay of the whole Renaissance here given complete) some little-known (Dudley North''s account of Metaphysical poetry) and one being printed for the first time (John Ford''s elegy on John Fletcher).