This book reappraises the work of early-seventeenth-century collectors of English Renaissance poetry in manuscript. The verse miscellanies, or poetry anthologies, of these collectors have long attract
In this volume, Joshua Eckhardt examines the religious texts and books that surrounded the poems, sermons, and inscriptions of the early modern poet and preacher John Donne. Focusing on the material r
Perhaps more than any other kind of book, manuscript miscellanies require a complex and a€?materiala€? reading strategy. This collection of essays engages the renewed and expanding interest in early m