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Renaissance Poetry and Prose

Selected Literature Resources

Selected Resources for Shakespeare

 
 
Shakespeare's Non-standard English : a Dictionary of His Informal Language
REF PR2892 .B56 2004

Selected Resources for Milton

The Cambridge Companion to Milton

The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost
PR3562 .C336 2014

A Companion to Milton

The Oxford Handbook of Milton
PR3587.3 .O94 2009

A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton
PR3593 .V3

Milton Encyclopedia
PR3580 .M5 (Stauffer Reference)
9 volumes

Selected Resources for Donne

The Cambridge companion to John Donne

Oxford Handbook of John Donne
PR2248 .O94 2011

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (4 volumes published)
PR2245.A5 P37 1994
Presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward.

DigitalDonne : the Online Variorum

Selected Resources for Spenser

Critical Companion to Spenser Studies
PR2364 .C68 2006

The Cambridge Companion to Spenser

Historical Resources

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
REF CB361 .E52 1999 (6 volumes)

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