Literary and visual Ralegh

<p>This collection of essays by scholars from Great Britain the United States Canada and Taiwan covers a wide range of topics about Ralegh's diversified career and achievements. Some of the essays shed light on less familiar facets such as Ralegh as a father and as he is represented in paintings statues and in movies; others re-examine him as poet historian as a controversial figure in Ireland during Elizabeth's reign and look at his complex relationship with and patronage of Edmund Spenser. A recurrent topic is the Hatfield Manuscript in Ralegh's handwriting which contains his long unfinished poem 'The Ocean to Cynthia' usually considered a lament about his rejection by Queen Elizabeth after she learned of his secret marriage to one of her ladies-in-waiting.<br><br>The book is appropriate for students of Elizabethan-Jacobean history and literature.<br><br>Among the contributors are well-known scholars of Ralegh and his era including James Nohrenberg Anna Beer Thomas Herron Alden Vaughan and Andrew Hiscock.</p>