The Epigrams of Sir John Harington

This urgently needed new edition of Harington's epigrams re-instates not only Harington's theological and politically savage epigrams, which were omitted in the early printed editions, but also Harington's very elaborate theological design, previously lost to scholarship. With an extensive original introduction, commentary and critical apparatus, this volume constitutes the first printed text of Harington's epigrams to follow the order he so assiduously laid down in the only two...
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This urgently needed new edition of Harington's epigrams re-instates not only Harington's theological and politically savage epigrams, which were omitted in the early printed editions, but also Harington's very elaborate theological design, previously lost to scholarship. With an extensive original introduction, commentary and critical apparatus, this volume constitutes the first printed text of Harington's epigrams to follow the order he so assiduously laid down in the only two complete manuscripts.