ABSTRACT

Many scholars have been calling for a new edition of Sir John Harington's Epigrams. Gerard Kilroy, using the three manuscripts arranged and revised by the author, offers the first complete text in print of Harington's four hundred Epigrams, uncovers Harington's elaborate design of forty theological decades, and restores the emblems and political elegies that Harington uses to frame his complete collection and define its serious purpose.

part |2 pages

Part 1: The Pleasant Learned Poet

chapter 1|22 pages

The Courtier in the Margins

chapter 2|18 pages

Models and Sources

chapter 3|24 pages

Patterns and Sequences

chapter 4|24 pages

The Texts and Early Modern Readers