...This chapter discusses the uses to which manuscripts and printed books were put in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the changing histories and critical traditions that have accounted for them, beginning with the place of Caxton, Pynson, and de Worde in the early English printing trade...

... and alliterative verse. Caxton’s successor, Wynkyn de Worde, expanded Caxton’s poetic list, adding many romance texts. Richard Pynson continued to expand the list of English poetic offerings, and was important for transmitting contemporary as well as older verse texts. The chapter explores how paratextual features...

... hold on the crown, fewer new texts dwelt upon treason in the ways characteristic of the literary culture of the previous decades. While the early sixteenth-century printer Wynkyn de Worde did print romances, he did not focus on producing the same kind of romances as Caxton, in terms...

...English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil c. 1400–1550. Matthew Day, Oxford University Press. © Matthew Day 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192871138.003.0004 Chapter 3 provides a comprehensive study of Wynkyn de Worde’s four editions of Virgil’s Eclogues...

... turns to the impact of print on English poetry: from the late fifteenth century, the printers Caxton and de Worde gave readers a new way to experience poems. At the court of Henry VIII, Skelton exploited both manuscript and print. The Devonshire manuscript, which circulated around Henry’s courtiers...

... Roland Caxton William Davis Alex de Worde Wynkyn Guy of Warwick Lydgate Kenilworth festivities Newcomb Lori Humphrey Phillips Harriet Spufford Margaret Squire of Low Degree The antiquarianism multivocality Sammelbände Bibliothèque Bleue genre Chartier Roger da Costa Alexandra Genette...