Latin Treatises on Poetry from Renaissance England

Original texts and translations, with commentary, of three Anglo-Latin treatises on poetics from the English Renaissance (by Henry Dethick, Alberico Gentili, and Caleb Dalechamp). These illustrate views on poetry and poetics current in theMoreOriginal texts and translations, with commentary, of three Anglo-Latin treatises on poetics from the English Renaissance (by Henry Dethick, Alberico Gentili, and Caleb Dalechamp). These illustrate views on poetry and poetics current in the contemporary English universities and reveal the extent to which continental theory had influenced the English. The texts draw on some six hundred classical, medieval, and renaissance authorities, indentified in this edition.