Description:
A modern-spelling edition of the first printed treatise dedicated to defining English poetry.
Brief description: Sonia Hernández-Santano is Tenured Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Huelva (Spain).
Review Quotes:
'William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetry, the 'first published treatise exclusively dedicated to the theory of poetry' in England but not edited in full in over a century, is conveniently presented in Sonia Herna ́ndez-Santano's edition. She provides us with an extensively glossed and annotated modern-spelling text that situates Webbe's treatise both in its early modern context and in terms of contemporary scholarship... Hopefully Herna ́ndez-Santano's fine treatment of Webbe's Discourse will inspire editions of other such fascinating early modern poetic treatises.' -- Sarah Case, Review of English StudiesAdvance Access 4 October 2016
'Webbe will be well served by the ready availability of a modernized text, and by the detailed introduction... The materials are here for a fuller reintegration of Webbe's Discourse into our understanding of Elizabethan humanism, poetics, and cultures of reading.' -- Michael Hetherington, Spenser Review 47.1.14, Winter 2017
'Sonia Hernández-Santano's edition of William Webbe's 'A Discourse of English Poetry (1586)', is an unexpected treasure: an affordable, well-introduced, paperback edition of a text companionate to George Gascoigne's, George Puttenham's, and Philip Sidney's discourses on poetry and poetics.' -- Katherine Eggert, English Literature 57, 2017, 183