Introduction: ‘Thus Much I Adventure to Deliver to You’: the Fortunes of George Gascoigne
Hamrick, Stephen
Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1/Special Issue 18
Abstract
Four hundred thirty years after his death, George Gascoigne (1534-1577) retains distinction as the foremost poet of Elizabeth’s “first reign.” In addition to Gillian Austen’s new study, numerous chapters in monographs, and a growing number of journal articles, the Oxford edition (2000) of Gascoigne’s A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres, edited by G.W. Pigman, III, and the first Gascoigne Seminar, Lincoln College, Oxford (2007), confirm the central position of Gascoigne within early Elizabethan literary culture (1). Gascoigne’s literary reputation, in fact, was so impressive that he produced a body of “disciples” and “imitators,” which Marie Axton dubs the “school of Gascoigne,” and created a posthumous Elizabethan reputation as a poet, the “bringer of order,” second only to Edmund Spenser and influential on the work of William Shakespeare and Philip Sidney
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