Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry A Student's Guide

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.Rivers, Isabel is the author of 'Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry A Student's Guide', published 1994 under ISBN 9780415106474 and ISBN 0415106478.