Manuscript Anthologizing of Poetry in Early Modern England

FAIN: FA-51782-05

Arthur Francis Marotti
Wayne State University (Detroit, MI 48201-1347)

This (comparative) study will examine the practice of private anthologizing of poetry in manuscript in early modern England. It focuses on the activities of individual verse collectors, whose tastes, interests, and sociopolitical positions are reflected in the artifacts they produced or had produced for them. It will situate particular manuscript collections in the environments in which they were compiled—the royal court, the Inns-of-Court (law schools), the university, the households of the aristocracy and gentry. It will also consider women’s significant participation in this system of literary transmission and examine the anthologizing practices of the English Catholic subculture.

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Author: Arthur F. Marotti
Editor: Peter Hinds
Editor: James Daybell
Abstract: This chapter discusses the Skipwith family manuscript poetry collection--a document often used by editors of John Donne's poetry. It considers the social and political contexts of its compilation over several decades of the early seventeenth century.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Title: Material Readings of Early Modern Culture, 1580-1700

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Abstract: This article examines a professionally transcribed poetry anthology belonging to Chaloner Chute, a politically active early Stuart figure who functioned both in London legal circles and in provincial gentry society.
Year: 2011
Format: Other
Periodical Title: English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 16 (2011): 112-40
Publisher: British Library

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Title: Manuscript Circulation of Poetry
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Year: 2010
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Manuscript Circulation (Book Section)
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Rare or Unique Poems in British Library MS Sloane 1446 (Book Section)
Title: Rare or Unique Poems in British Library MS Sloane 1446
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Title: Literary Coteries, Communities, and Networks: The Circulation of Verse at the Inns of Court and in London in Early Stuart England
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Neighborhood, Social Networks, and the Making of a Family’s Manuscript Poetry Collection: The Case of British Library MS Additional 25707 (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Neighborhood, Social Networks, and the Making of a Family’s Manuscript Poetry Collection: The Case of British Library MS Additional 25707
Author: Arthur F. Marotti
Abstract: See the abstract of the article resulting from this.
Date: 4/11/2008
Conference Name: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture, 1580-1700 (University of Plymouth, UK)

Chaloner Chute’s Poetical Anthology (BL MS Additional 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Early-Stuart Collection (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Chaloner Chute’s Poetical Anthology (BL MS Additional 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Early-Stuart Collection
Author: Arthur F. Marotti
Abstract: See the description of the article resulting from this.
Date: 7/4/2008
Conference Name: Manuscripts and Miscellaneity, c. 1450-1720 (Cambridge University)

’Rolling Archetypes’: Christ Church, Oxford Poetry Collections and Their Dissemination into Wider Literary Circulation, (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: ’Rolling Archetypes’: Christ Church, Oxford Poetry Collections and Their Dissemination into Wider Literary Circulation,
Author: Arthur F. Marotti
Abstract: See the description of the article resulting from this.
Date: 3/9/2009
Conference Name: Renaissance Society of America Convention

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