Autor: David Norbrook

The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its po …

The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius’ De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human lif …