Fair Copies

In Fair Copies, Matthew Zarnowiecki argues that poetic production was re-envisioned during this period, which was rife with models of copying and imitation, to include reproduction as one of its inherent attributes.

Matthew Zarnowiecki is chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at Touro College's Lander College for Men and Lander College for Women.

‘A fresh perspective on the changing relationship between the individuality of the poet and the sociable purpose his verse would serve… Zarnowiecki’s study offers a rich provocation and an incitement to rethink our approach to sixteenth-century poetry.’

Susan Anderson, Department of English, Leeds Trinity University College:

“Well-researched and convincing, Fair Copies offers a much more refined model of textual reproduction and the status of texts in their different iterations than has hitherto been understood.”