{"product_id":"9781590179789","title":"English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to Jonson","description":"\u003cb\u003eAN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE AUTHOR OF STONER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetry in  English as we know it was largely invented in England between the early  1500s and 1630, and yet for many years the poetry of the era was  considered little more than a run-up to Shakespeare. The twentieth  century brought a reevaluation, and the English Renaissance has since  come to be recognized as the period of extraordinary poetic  experimentation that it was. Never since have the possibilities of  poetic form and, especially, poetic voice—from the sublime to the  scandalous and slangy—been so various and inviting. This is poetry that  speaks directly across the centuries to the renaissance of poetic  exploration in our own time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Williams’s celebrated anthology  includes not only some of the most famous poems by some of the most  famous poets of the English language (Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Donne, and  of course Shakespeare) but also-—-and this is what makes Williams’s book  such a rare and rich resource—the strikingly original work of  little-known masters like George Gascoigne and Fulke Greville.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181210517744,"sku":"9781590179789","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590179789_p0.jpg?v=1763804588","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590179789","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}