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Ambition, rank, and poetry in 1590s England

Encoded in the writings of aspiring Elizabethan poets, the author finds a new social vision in which the prevailing nobility of blood (on which their livelihood depended) would be replaced by a nobility of learning.
Print Book, English, 2001
University of Illinois Press, Urbana (Ill.), 2001