Welcome. In a moment of shameless vanity, I've converted my reading list for the summer (and the fall, and the spring) into an HTML file for your perusal. Pray for my sanity.
Bender, Robert M., ed. Five Courtier Poets of the English Renaissance. New York: Washington Square Press, 1967.
Campion, Thomas. Works, ed. Walter R. Davis. New York: Norton, 1970.
Crashaw, Richard. The Poems: English, Latin and Greek, ed. L. C. Martin. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.
Donne, John. The Complete English Poems, ed. A. J. Smith. London: Penguin, 1986.
Herbert, George. The Temple. In The Complete English Poems, ed. John Tobin. London: Penguin, 1991.
Herrick, Robert. Poems, ed. L. C. Martin. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Jonson, Ben. Poems of Ben Jonson, ed. Ian Donaldson. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Lanyer, Aemilia. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, ed. Susanne Woods. Women Writers in English 1350-1850. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Marlowe, Christopher. Hero and Leander. In The Complete Poems and Translations, ed. Stephen Orgel. London: Penguin, 1971.
Marvell, Andrew. Complete Works, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart. Vol. 1: Verse. New York: AMS Press, 1966.
Milton, John. Shorter poems, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes. In Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Merritt Y. Hughes. New York: Macmillan, 1957.
Shakespeare, William. The Sonnets, ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones (Arden Shakespeare edition, 3rd series). Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1997.
Sidney, Philip, Sir. Astrophel and Stella. In Selected Prose and Poetry, ed. Robert Kimbrough. 2nd ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Spenser, Edmund. Amoretti and Epithalamion. In Edmund Spenser's Poetry, ed. Hugh Maclean and Anne Lake Prescott. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1993.
---. The Faerie Queene, books 4 and 6, ed. A. C. Hamilton. Longman Annotated English Poets Series. London: Longman, 1995.
Tottel's Miscellany (1557-1587), ed. Hyder Edward Rollins. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
Traherne, Thomas. Poems, Centuries and Three Thanksgivings, ed. Anne Ridler. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Wroth, Mary, Lady. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. In The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
Wyatt, Thomas, Sir. Complete Poems, ed. R. A. Rebholz. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
Chapman, George. Chapman's Homer: The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica, ed. Allardyce Nicoll. New York: Pantheon Books, 1956.
Golding, Arthur. Shakespeare's Ovid: Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses, ed. W. H. D. Rouse. London: De la More Press, 1904.
Jonson, Ben. Q. Horatius Flaccus: his Art of Poetry. Englished by Ben: Jonson . . . London, 1640.
Marlowe, Christopher. Ovid's Elegies. In Complete Poems and Translations.
Ascham, Roger. The Scholemaster. New York: AMS Press, 1967.
Campion, Thomas. Observations in the Art of English Poesie, 1602 (facsimile reprint). Menston, Yorkshire: Scolar Press, 1968.
Castiglione, Baldassare. The Book of the Courtier, transl. Sir Thomas Hoby. London: J. M. Dent, 1956.
Daniel, Samuel. A Defence of Ryme . . . 1602. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1966.
Puttenham, George. The Arte of English Poesie. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1970.
Sidney, Philip, Sir. The Defence of Poesy. In Selected Prose and Poetry.
Allen, Don Cameron. Image and Meaning: Metaphoric Traditions in Renaissance Poetry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1960, 1968.
Attridge, Derek. Well-Weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres. London: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Biester, James. Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Braden, Gordon. The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry: Three Case Studies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
Dubrow, Heather. Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Ferguson, Margaret. Trials of Desire: Renaissance Defenses of Poetry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
Ferry, Anne. The "Inward" Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Gilman, Ernest B. Iconoclasm and Poetry in the English Reformation: Down Went Dagon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Greene, Roland Arthur. Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Gregerson, Linda. The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Hardison, O. B. Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Helgerson, Richard. Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
Javitch, Daniel. Poetry and Courtliness in Renaissance England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Kay, Dennis. Melodious Tears: The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Lord, George de Forest. Classical Presences in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
May, Steven W. The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991.
Mazzaro, Jerome. Transformations in the English Renaissance Lyric. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.
Tuve, Rosemond. Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery: Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth-Century Critics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947, 1961.
Vendler, Helen. The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1997.
Vickers, Brian. Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry. London: Macmillan, 1970.
Adorno, T.W. "Lyric Poetry and Society." In Critical Theory and Society: A Reader, ed. Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner. New York: Routledge, 1989.
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1969.
Cameron, Sharon. Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
Culler, Jonathan. "Apostrophe." Diacritics 7 no. 4 (1977): 59-69.
de Man, Paul. The Rhetoric of Romanticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
Derrida, Jacques. "Che cos'e la poesia?" Poesie 50 (1989): 109-12.
Genette, Gerard. "Langage poetique, poetique du langage." In Essays in Semiotics, ed. Julia Kristeva, Josette Rey-Debove, and Donna Jean Umiker. The Hague: Mouton, 1971. 423-46.
Hollander, John. The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Hosek, Chaviva, and Patricia Parker, eds. Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.
Jakobson, Roman. "Linguistics and Poetics." In Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: A Reader, ed. K. M. Newton. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 71-77.
Johnson, W. R. The Idea of Lyric: Lyric Modes in Ancient and Modern Poetry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
McGann, Jerome. "The Text, the Poem, and the Problem of Historical Method." New Literary History 12 no. 2 (1981): 269-288.
Riffaterre, Michael. Semiotics of Poetry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.
Sedgwick, Eve. "A Poem is Being Written." Representations 17 (1987): 110-143.
Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
Stewart, Susan. "Lyric Possession." Critical Inquiry 22 no. 1 (1995): 34-63.
---. "Preface to a Lyric History." In The Uses of Literary History, ed. Marshall Brown. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. 199-218.
Walsh, Andrew. Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1978.