Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance

Fulke Greville''s reputation has always been overshadowed by that of his more famous friend, Philip Sidney, a legacy due in part to Greville''s complex moulding of his authorial persona as Achates to Sidney''s Aeneas, and in part to the formidable complexity of his poetry and prose. This volume seeks to vindicate Greville''s ''obscurity'' as an intrinsic feature of his poetic thinking, and as a pr...