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Solitude and Speechlessness is a book that scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry will appreciate for its detailed, precise, and accurate analysis of canonical works. It provides a re-reading of such works through a peculiar lens: the pursuit, or fear, of the sense of isolation that allows us to find, but also lose, ourselves. -- Elena Brizio, Georgetown University * <em>Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme</em> * In his remarkable study, Andrew Mattison offers a fascinating examination of the various and self-conscious forms of literary withdrawal within sixteenth and seventeenth-century English writings, and of the implications that such a poetics of isolation have for the writing of literary history. -- Joshua Easterling, Murray State University * <em>Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching</em> *

Written in lively and engaging prose, Solitude and Speechlessness returns readers to the problematic of the literary text through a new and exciting lens, reminding us of the hermeneutic humility and epistemological uncertainty that we should exercise when entering into this strange yet rewarding period of literary history. -- Grant Williams, Department of English, Carleton University Solitude and Speechlessness is a serious, sophisticated, and well-informed discussion of a series of English poets from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century, centered on the relations between authorial self-consciousness and literary history. -- Gordon Braden, Department of English, University of Virginia

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Andrew Mattison teaches in the English Department at the University of Toledo.

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