... Posies Flowres A few months after Elizabethan poet George Gascoigne died, there appeared in print a 348-line verse elegy in fifty-eight sexains—what later would come to be called “Venus and Adonis stanzas”—and entitled A Remembravnce of the wel imployed life, & godly end, of George...

....,” insists provocatively on its adulterous secrets and hidden identities, and other poems allude more quietly to concealed identities. As Gascoigne later explained in his revised edition, The Posies of George Gascoigne (1575), Hundreth had been accused not only of wantonness...

... Gascoigne Posies poetic license Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene censorship practices But where as you say a poet may faine what he list: In deede my thynke it should bee so, and ought to be well taken of the hearers: but it hath not at al times been so allowed. -- William Baldwin (1563 , p. Xiii...

...0 14 11 2008 To One in Bedlam With delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars, Surely he hath his posies, which they tear and twine; Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line His strait, caged universe, whereat the dull world stares, Pedant and pitiful. O, how his rapt gaze wars...