Reading Monarch's Writing : The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VI/I

by Herman, Peter C.

• ISBN13: 9780866982764
• ISBN10: 0866982760
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Mrts

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	x
Acknowledgments	xi
Part I
Reading Monarchs Writing: Introduction	1	(10)
Peter C. Herman
Ray G. Siemens
Henry VIII and the Poetry of Politics	11	(24)
Peter C. Herman
Ray G. Siemens
Writing to Control: The Verse of Mary, Queen of Scots	35	(16)
Lisa Hopkins
``mes subjectz, mon ame assubjectie'': The Problematic (of) Subjectivity in Mary Stuart's Sonnets	51	(28)
Peter C. Herman
``The Arte of a Ladies Penne'': Elizabeth I and the Poetics of Queenship	79	(30)
Jennifer Summit
States of Blindness: Doubt, Justice, and Constancy in Elizabeth I's ``Avec I'aveugler si estrange''	109	(26)
Constance Jordan
Queen Elizabeth I as Public and Private Poet: Notes toward a New Edition	135	(20)
Leah S. Marcus
Kingcraft and Poetry: James VI's Cultural Policy	155	(24)
Sandra J. Bell
War and Peace in The Lepanto	179	(38)
Robert Appelbaum
Part II Selected Poems of Tudor/Stuart Monarchs
Henry VIII
``Pastime with good company'' (The King's Ballad)	217	(1)
``Alas, what shall I do for love?''	218	(1)
``Oh, my heart''	219	(1)
``The time of youth is to be spent''	219	(1)
``Alac, Alac! What shall I do?''	220	(1)
``Hey nonny nonny, nonny nonny no!''	220	(2)
``Green grows the holly''	222	(1)
``Whoso that will all feats obtain''	223	(1)
``If love now reigned as it has been''	223	(1)
``Whereto should I express''	224	(1)
``Though that men do call it dotage''	225	(1)
``Departure is my chief pain''	226	(1)
``Without discord''	226	(1)
``Though some say that youth rules me''	227	(1)
``Whoso that will for grace sue''	227	(1)
``Lusty Youth should us ensue''	228	(3)
Mary Stuart
Quatrain Written in the Mass Book
Verses written in 1582	231	(1)
``Celui vraiment n'a point de courtoisie''	231	(1)
``Les dieux, les cieux''	232	(1)
Sonnets to Bothwell	232	(10)
Sonnet to Elizabeth	242	(1)
From G[eorge] B[unchanan], Ane Detection of the Duinges (The Anglo-Scots Translation of Mary Sturat's ``Certain French Sonnets'')	243	(14)
Elizabeth I
Written on a window frame at Woodstock, ``O Fortune, the wresting, wavering state''	257	(1)
Written with a Diamond, ``Much Suspected by me''	258	(1)
On Monsieur's Departure, ``I greive and dare not show my discontent''	258	(3)
Verse Exhange between Sir Walter Ralegh and Elizabeth
Ralegh to Elizabeth, ``Fortune hath taken away my love''	259	(1)
Elizabeth to Ralegh, ``Ah, silly Pug''	260	(1)
Elizabeth's French Verses	261	(8)
Variants of ``The Doubt of Furture Foes''	269	(12)
James VI/I
``The Twelve Sonnets of Invocations to The Gods''	281	(7)
``A Paraphrasticall Translation Out of the Pete Lucan''	288	(2)
``L'envoy''	290	(1)
The Author's Preface To The Reader (from the 1603 Edition of The Lepanto)	291	(2)
The Lepanto	293	(32)
Index	325	(4)
Notes on Contributors	329