The Perils of Writing the Early Modern English Coastline from Leland to Milton
by
Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
England became a centrally important maritime power in the early modern period, and its writers – acutely aware of their inhabiting an island – often depicted the coastline as a major topic of their works. However, early modern English versifiers had to reconcile this reality with the classical...