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Additional Reading > The Renaissance period, 1550–1660 > Early Stuart poetry and prose
The most-detailed general narrative (though dated) is Douglas Bush, English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600–1660, 2nd ed., rev. (1962, reissued 1979). More useful are Thomas N. Corns, The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry: Donne to Marvell (1993); Alan Sinfield, Literature in Protestant England, 1560–1660 (1983); and Alison Shell, Catholicism, Controversy, and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660 (1999). Among studies on prose is Roger Pooley, English Prose of the Seventeenth Century (1992). Nigel Smith, Literature and Revolution in England, 1640–1660 (1994), discusses the Civil War period.


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