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the poetics of melancholy in early modern england
exploring how attitudes toward human emotions changed in england during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this book emphasizes the shared concerns of the non literary and literary texts produced by edmund spenser john donne robert burton and john milton . douglas trevor asserts that scholarly practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes influenced the methods by which these writers came to analyze their own moods .
paperback cambridge university press 2010 isbn13 9780521114233 isbn10 0521114233
abridged n isbn 13 9780521114233 number in series 1 number of pages 252 publisher cambridge univ pr release date 62135769600000 series title cambridge studies in renaissance literature & culture