Publisher's Synopsis
WILLIAM SMITH: CHLORIS: ELIZABETHAN SONNET CYCLE ---- Edited by Mark Tuley ---- Introduced by Martha Foote Crow ---- William Smith's 'Chloris, or, The Complaint of the Passionate Shepherd' (1596) is one of the lesser-known Elizabethan sonnet sequences, reprinted here in an attractive new edition. The book includes a note on William Smith by Martha Foote Crow, illustrations, and suggestions for further reading. Each poem has a page to itself. It's a useful edition for students. William Smith 'Chloris' sonnet-cycle contains touches of real feeling and lines of musical sweetness; the writer shows considerable skill in the management of rhyme, and in structure he adopts the form preferred by William Shakespeare, whose "sugared sonnets" likely influenced him. ----- Illustrated. Bibliography, introduction and note. 92 pages. www.crmoon.com
