Here is a characteristic sentence from David Norbrook’s introduction to “The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse,” published in 1992: Like More, Wyatt found it impossible to find a public discourse ...

Sonnets still have a reputation for being about the unrequited love of a man for a woman. AndreasPraefcke/Wikimedia Commons As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never ...

Professor of English Ramie Targoff teaches and studies Renaissance literature, with an emphasis on the relationship between literature and religion. She recently finished a book on the poetry and ...

This course explores the flourishing of English literary culture from the Tudor humanists (such as Sir Thomas More) and courtly makers (Sir Thomas Wyatt) to the Elizabethan sonnet writers (Sir Philip ...