CRITICISM

Adams, John Charles. “Gabriel Harvey's Ciceronianus and the Place of Peter Ramus' Dialecticae Libri Duo in the Curriculum.” Renaissance Quarterly 43, no. 3 (autumn 1990): 551-69.

Discusses Harvey's theory of education and presents a reassessment of the place of Ramus's Dialectic in the curriculum at Cambridge University.

Bennett, Josephine Waters. “Spenser and Gabriel Harvey's Letter-Book.” Modern Philology 29 (August 1931): 163-86.

Maintains that certain letters in Harvey's Letter-Book are not addressed to Spenser, as critics have assumed.

Bourland, Caroline Brown. “Gabriel Harvey and the Modern Languages.” The Huntington Library Quarterly 4, no. 1 (October 1940): 85-106.

Describes several language manuals owned by Harvey and analyzes his annotations to the volumes.

Harman, Edward George. Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe. London: J. M. Ouseley & Son, Ltd., 1923, 274 p.

Examines in detail the controversy between Harvey and Thomas Nashe; includes chapters that discuss Harvey's personality and career.

Jardine, Lisa and Grafton, Anthony. “Studied for Action: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy.” Past and Present no. 129 (November 1990): 30-78.

Discusses Harvey's ideals and methods of critical reading, his skilful annotation, his active appropriation of texts, and his engagement with politics and history, which the critics claim offer lessons for readers today.

Nielson, James. “Reading Between the Lines: Manuscript Personality and Gabriel Harvey's Drafts.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1800 33, no. 1 (winter 1993): 43-82.

Analyzes the manuscript of Harvey's Letter-Book and the way it allows readers to get at the “real” Harvey through his handwritten text.

Shore, David. “Spenser, Gabriel Harvey, and ‘Hobgoblin Runne Away with the Garland from Apollo.’” Cahiers Elisabéthains 31 (April 1987): 59-61.

Contends that the “Hobgoblin” in Harvey's 1580 assessment of Spenser's Faerie Queene refers not Spenser's poem but to Harvey himself.

Stern, Virginia F. “The Bibliotheca of Gabriel Harvey.” Renaissance Quarterly 25, no. 1 (spring 1972): 1-17.

Catalog, with notes, of the books in Harvey's library.

———. Gabriel Harvey: His Life, Marginalia, and Library. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979, 293 p.

Comprehensive study divided into sections on the scholar's life, his marginalia, and his library. Stern also comments on Harvey's habits in annotating and classifies his notes.

Wilson, Harold S. “Gabriel Harvey's Method of Annotating His Books.” Harvard Library Bulletin 2, no. 3 (autumn 1948): 344-61.

Discusses the complex and peculiar methods used by Harvey to annotate his books, including his complicated use of symbols and cross references, which, Wilson maintains, are important for understanding the scholar's marginalia.

Wilson, Katherine. “Revenge of the Angel Gabriel: Harvey's ‘A Nobleman's Suit to a Country Maid.’” In The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998), edited by Mike Pincombe, pp. 79-89. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2001.

Examines Harvey's single fictional work in light of the personality he created in his miscellaneous writings and marginalia.

Additional coverage of Harvey's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 167, 213; and Literature Resource Center.