Showing the sights
D.J. Enright, 15 August 1991
The New Oxford Book of 16th-Century Verse
edited by Emrys Jones.
Oxford, 809 pp., £25, June 1991,0 19 214126 0 Show More
edited by Emrys Jones.
Oxford, 809 pp., £25, June 1991,
“... archaic enough. But this famous great work has always daunted me. Chambers gave 30 poems from Wyatt, Jones prints 28 plus one attribution, and they have 12 poems in common, including ‘They flee from me’, ‘And wilt thou leave me thus?’ and ‘Mine own John Poyntz’. Where they differ in choice, it might be ventured that Jones’s, though still ... ”