Hall, Joseph | Ronald J. Corthell (essay date 1983)
Ronald J. Corthell (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Corthell, Ronald J. “Beginning as a Satirist: Joseph Hall's Virgidemiarum Sixe Bookes.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 23 (winter 1983): 47-60.
[In this essay, Corthell discusses how the Virgidemiarum reveals Hall's early conception of himself as a writer in the Elizabethan era. Further, the critic argues that Hall's first satire represents the work of a young poet attempting to establish an original mode of writing in the shadow of great poets such as Edmund Spenser.]
In his compelling studies of the Elizabethan idea of the literary career, Richard Helgerson has encouraged a reading of Elizabethan literary history which attends primarily to various career models followed by poets rather than to stylistic or generic distinctions between writers. In a recent essay which borrows cautiously from principles of modern linguistics, Helgerson has portrayed the late...
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