English Renaissance Literary Criticism

This wide-ranging compilation of texts illustrates clearly the great variety of criticism of English literature on offer during the Renaissance period.
A comprehensive collection of English Renaissance literary criticism. 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).