Nicholas Breton, the Earl of Essex, and Elizabethan Penitential Poetry

<p style="text-align:justify;"> This essay reexamines the authorship of The Passion of a Discontented Minde (1601, 1602, 1621), a long penitential poem. It challenges on several counts the poem’s generally accepted attribution to Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, and argues the...

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Main Author: Gazzard, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2016