Cain and Connolly's edition is remarkable ... [it] is bound to become the best guide to Herrick's verse. It deserves also to be regarded as one of the best sources of information about earlier 17th-century poetry.

Colin Burrow, London Review of Books

This major new edition of the poetry of Robert Herrick is a triumph ... the editors have produced a handsome publication befitting the increasingly vibrant and detailed scholarship surrounding the work of one of the masters of the English lyric poem ... Cain and Connolly's new edition accords with its subject perfectly. While the two volumes are weighty, their immense scholarship is lightly worn.

Patrick J Murray, The Review of English Studies

The Cain and Connolly Complete Poetry is a fine thing, full of interest and unostentatious excellence, humane and generous in its sympathies while at the same time being ambitious and exacting in its scholarship. Herrick has been lucky in his editors.

Tom Lockwood, The Seventeenth Century

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this new edition of Herricks Works is a monumental enterprise, brilliantly carried off.

Graham Parry, Spenser Review

Robert Herrick has long been one of the best loved of English lyric poets. Known through the centuries as the author of 'Gather ye rosebuds', he also wrote, as this new edition shows, hundreds of songs, epigrams and longer poems equally worthy of attention. Volume I of this new edition of Herrick's work contains Hesperides, Herrick's only published collection. As well as the commentary on Hesperides, volume II contains the fifty-nine surviving manuscript poems which can be firmly attributed to Herrick, and on which his reputation was based before 1648. It is an ambitious and original attempt to recover for the first time the history of Herrick's corpus of manuscript poetry, and to identify how his poems circulated, and who his copyists and readers were. By establishing the type of sources to which they had access and the nature and quality of the poems these sources contained, and through the histories of transmission that accompany every poem, this volume offers a significant body of evidence that deepens our critical understanding not only of Herrick's poetry, but of the mechanics of scribal publication and the culture of reading, writing and performing poetry and music in early modern England. Where, as is often the case, a musical setting survives this is also printed, along with a commentary on the setting, in a form which is designed to encourage the performance of the lyrics.
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Volume II breaks new ground by printing the fifty-nine surviving manuscript poems by which Herrick was known for most of his life. This volume provides the scores and notes on the nature of performance of all of his songs for which contemporary settings survive.
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HERRICK'S POETRY IN MANUSCRIPT
Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for Reference Works 2014
Contains by far the most thorough explanatory notes to date Prints texts of each manuscript poem with a history of its transmission Prints the scores of contemporary settings of Herrick's songs, along with detailed notes on performance Contains a thorough, much needed biography, the first scholarly one for over a century Text of Hesperides based on collation of all surviving copies found
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Tom Cain is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern Literature at Newcastle University. He has worked on Herrick for many years, but has also written a study of Tolstoy (1977), and edited Nicholas Hilliard's Art of Limning (1981). His Revels Plays edition of Jonson's Poetaster (1995) was followed by an edition of the manuscript poems left by Herrick's patron, Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland (2001). He has written several essays on Donne and Jonson, and has just edited Jonson's Sejanus for the Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson (2012). Ruth Connolly is Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century Literature at Newcastle University. Her current work focusses on the circulation of Stuart lyric poetry in manuscript, and on early modern women's writing, especially by members of the Boyle family, Katherine Boyle Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1614-91) and Mary Boyle Rich, Countess of Warwick (1624-1678.)
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Contains by far the most thorough explanatory notes to date Prints texts of each manuscript poem with a history of its transmission Prints the scores of contemporary settings of Herrick's songs, along with detailed notes on performance Contains a thorough, much needed biography, the first scholarly one for over a century Text of Hesperides based on collation of all surviving copies found
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199212859
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1378 gr
Høyde
239 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
54 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
826

Om bidragsyterne

Tom Cain is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern Literature at Newcastle University. He has worked on Herrick for many years, but has also written a study of Tolstoy (1977), and edited Nicholas Hilliard's Art of Limning (1981). His Revels Plays edition of Jonson's Poetaster (1995) was followed by an edition of the manuscript poems left by Herrick's patron, Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland (2001). He has written several essays on Donne and Jonson, and has just edited Jonson's Sejanus for the Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson (2012). Ruth Connolly is Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century Literature at Newcastle University. Her current work focusses on the circulation of Stuart lyric poetry in manuscript, and on early modern women's writing, especially by members of the Boyle family, Katherine Boyle Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1614-91) and Mary Boyle Rich, Countess of Warwick (1624-1678.)