Heinrich F. Plett

English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics: a Systematic Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Symbola et Emblemata Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Symbolism) Heinrich F. Plett

This reference work on English Renaissance rhetoric and poetics is arranged in four sections: bibliographies; primary sources; secondary sources; and indices. The section on primary sources lists more than 500 books on rhetoric and poetics published in the British Isles and abroad between 1479 and 1660. Detailed information is provided on each of them, such as transcription of the title-page of the "editio princeps", call number of the library copy consulted, and further historical and modern editions. The secondary sources section covers the whole range of "applied rhetoric and poetics", totalling some 2000 titles between 1900 and 1994. It deals systematically with such topics as "General Studies", "Rhetorical Genres" and "Rhetoric/Poetics and Individual Authors". An introductory essay outlines the principles of the bibliography.