George Gascoigne, amateur poet and gentleman, was the chief poet of the early Elizabethan period. As a writer supremely interested in proving the English language to be as fit a medium for poetry as other languages, he deserves attention if only as a...

George Gascoigne's 'Posies' had not been revised as he claimed in the preface to appease the censors who initially seized his collection of risque poems. However, although some 20th-century critics took him at his word, the collection did not undergo any major revisions. The...

George Gascoigne. A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres. Ed. G.W. Pigman III. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. lxv+781 pp. ISBN 0 19 811779 5. Adam Smyth University of Reading a.smyth@reading.ac.uk Smyth, Adam. "Review of George Gascoigne. A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres. Ed. G.W....

In the essay which follows, Kneidel asserts that Gascoigne intentionally depicted himself in his writings as an internally divided individual.

In the essay which follows, Wallace provides an in-depth analysis of both The Steele Glas and The Complainte of Phylomene.

In the following essay, Kalas examines the symbolic importance of the mirror in Gascoigne's The Steele Glas.