Broad-minded, ambitious, well-read, and socially inept, Gabriel Harvey was probably one of the most visible literary personalities of his day. Out of a prosperous middle-class background, he carved a ...
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Gabriel Harvey was a poet and a writer who generated enough controversy that he was forced out of public life and into a thirty-year retirement. It was difficult for even Harvey 's friends and admirer...
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Gabriel Harvey is today remembered primarily for associations with others: his friendship with Edmund Spenser, his enmity with Thomas Nashe and Robert Greene, his futile attempts to win favor with Que...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1871, Morley provides an overview of Harvey's life, character, and career.
When, in 1579, their old comrade at Pembroke Hall, Edward Kirke, prefi...
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In the following essay, Grafton argues that Harvey's handwritten commentaries offer insights into his life, the texts he read, and the history of Elizabethan England.
In David Lodge's no...
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In the following essay, Cochrane discusses Harvey's response to Stefano Guazzo's A Civil Conversation, a Renaissance work of moral philosophy, and argues that Harvey considered the work ...
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In the following essay, Quitslund examines the five letters between Spenser and Harvey that were published in 1580 and questions the trustworthiness of these documents as evidence about Spenser'...
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In the following essay, Prewitt explores Harvey's commitment to his pragmatic “Method,” based on the philosophy of Peter Ramus, despite its controversial nature and his fear that ...
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In the following excerpt, originally published in 1884 for private circulation, Grosart provides an extremely unflattering assessment of Harvey and his works, calling his efforts little more than curi...
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In the following excerpt, Moore Smith discusses Harvey's marginalia, his “war” with Thomas Nashe, and his career after the controversy.
Harvey's marginalia give us just wha...
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In the following essay, Wilson offers a comparative analysis of two lectures by Harvey, Rhetor and Ciceronianus, and judges them “fine examples of polished Renaissance Latinity that compare fav...
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In the following essay, Wilson examines Harvey's Ciceronianus, describing its composition, context, contents, purpose, and style.
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Though Gabriel Harvey was not, like the poet,
A creature quit...
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In the following essay, Austin examines Harvey's Ode Natalita, a Latin ode to Peter Ramus, and contends that this shows Harvey to be an early, enthusiastic disciple of the French philosopher.
W...
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In the following essay, Relle presents an account of the marginalia in three works owned by Harvey and maintains that they shed light on the writers and books Harvey was reading, his reading habits, a...
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In the following essay, Tobin argues that Shakespeare's Hamlet contains references to Harvey's A New Letter of Notable Contents and Pierce's Supererogation.
Gabriel Harvey, though...
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In the following essay, originally presented at a symposium in 1988, Grafton examines the evidence of Harvey's critical reading as found in his marginalia, observing the links between reading, ...
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Gabriel Harvey
