 | The Faerie Queene (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Edmund Spenser
Buy used from: £10.00 One of the greatest poems in English. Spenser the man is not always easy to like, but his genius speaks for itself.
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 | Donne : Complete English Poems (The Everyman Library) by John Donne
Buy used from: £2.00 Is he Jack Donne, Doctor Donne, or both at once? Don't expect to find anyone else in his poetry.
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 | The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.80 No other biography seems to bring such a complex man to life.
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 | The Plays (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Christopher Marlowe
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.10 Infinite riches in a little room. Is he tragic or comic?
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 | Renaissance Self Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen J. Greenblatt
Buy used from: £9.00 Showing the Nietzschean violence at the heart of the English Renaissance, this book opens a window into man's soul.
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 | The Riverside Milton by Roy C. Flannagan
Buy new: £37.00 / Used from: £47.27 The best version of Milton, with the best notes. Milton needs no introduction.
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 | The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by John Webster
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.50 Still an underrated playwright, especially in a culture that has forgotten death.
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 | The Complete Poems (Classics) by Ben Jonson
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £2.00 The highly-polished poetry of one of Englands most hardworking writers.
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 | John Donne: Life, Mind and Art by John Carey
Not for those sympathetic to Donne, but painfully accurate criticism.
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 | A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Buy new: £25.82 / Used from: £22.00 Not the kind of book you'd read on the bus, but a massively useful reference for anyone interested in the English Renaissance.
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