An introduction to the major emblem books of the 16th and 17th centuries, and to the contexts in which they flourished.

This new edition includes a new chapter on ¡¥Post-colonial Poetry¡¦, a substantial increase in the number of end-of-chapter interactive exercises, and a comprehensive Glossary of poetic terms.

In this new study Michael Bath not only describes and illustrates the surviving embroideries, but also documents from early records a large number of those that have disappeared.

This third edition has been significantly updated in response to current developments in poetry and poetic criticism, and includes many new examples and exercises, new chapters on ¡¥world poetry¡¦ and ¡¥eco-poetry¡¦, and a greater ...

Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in Emblems in Scotland Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations, ...

This stunning book reveals in depth the variety and development of decorative paintings in Scottish buildings of the 16th and 17th centuries, as important as any in Europe.