THE term “literature of the age of Elizabeth ” is not confined to the literature produced in the reign of Elizabeth, but is a general name for an era in literature, commencing about the middle of her ...

"An inquisitive and semi-barbarous public coupled with a group of men, as well as patrons, of letters saved the Elizabethan dramatists from the unpardonable fault of dullness," said T.S. Eliot '10, ...

I discovered this week's poem in a glorious anthology, Elizabethan Lyrics, edited by Norman Ault in 1925. I'd like to say a bit about the anthology first, because it's such an achievement. Ault's aim ...