Fulke Greville

Bradin Cormack

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, Thom Gunn’s selection of Greville’s short poems includes the whole of Greville’s lyric sequence, Caelica, along with choruses from some of Greville’s verse dramas. Gunn’s introduction places Greville’s thought in historical context and in relation to the existential anxieties that came to preoccupy writers in the twentieth century. It is as revealing about Gunn himself, and the reading of earlier English verse in the 1960s, as it is about Greville’s own poetic achievement. This reissue of Selected Poems of Fulke Greville is an event of the first order both for students of early British literature and for readers of Thom Gunn and English poetry generally.

The Selected Poems of Fulke Greville

Containing Memorial-Introduction; Poems of Monarchy ; And Treatise of Religion

The Works in Verse and Prose Complete ; For the First Time Collected and Edited, with Memorial-Introduction; Essay, Critical and Elucidatory; and Notes

Believed by some to be the true author of Shakespeare's plays, the Elizabethan poet, dramatist and statesman, Fulke Greville is best known today as the biographer of his lifelong friend Sir Philip Sidney. Greville wrote learned and sober poetry, presenting dark, thoughtful and distinctly Calvinist views on art, literature, beauty and other philosophical matters. His style is noted for its comparable force of imagination, serving as a precursor for the intellectual reasoning of John Donne and the metaphysical poets. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Greville’s complete works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Greville’s life and works * Concise introduction to Greville’s life and poetry * Excellent formatting of the poems * Includes rare minor poems * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes the two closet dramas * Includes Greville’s prose works, including his seminal biography on Sidney * Features a bonus biography — discover Greville’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Fulke Greville Brief Introduction: Fulke Greville Complete Poetical Works of Fulke Greville The Closet Dramas Alaham Mustapha The Prose The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney A Letter to an Honourable Lady A Letter to Greuill Varney on His Travels A Short Speech for Bacon The Biography Fulke Greville by Sidney Lee Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

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