Steven W. May

Life

Works

Books

• Henry Stanford’s Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts
• Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, ed.
• Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse, 1559-1603, 3 vols. with William A. Ringler, Jr.
• In the Prayse of Writing: Early Modern Manuscript Studies: Essays in Honour of Peter Beal ed. with S. P. Cerasano

  Articles

• in Renaissance Papers 10, Leigh A. Deneef and Thomas M. Hester, eds. 10: 11–18.
• "The Poems of Edward DeVere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex", Studies in Philology 77: 1-132.
• "The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford as Poet and Playwright", Tennessee Law Review, 72: 221-54.
• "The Future of Manuscript Studies in Early Modern Poetry", Shakespeare Studies, 32: 56-62.
• "Henry Gurney, a Norfolk Farmer, Reads Spenser and Others", Spenser Studies, 20: 183-223.
• "Youthes Witte: An Unstudied Elizabethan Anthology of Printed Verse and Prose Fiction", Renaissance Papers 2006, 1-11.
• "Early Courtier Verse: Oxford, Dyer, and Gascoigne", in Early Modern English Poetry, Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., eds. 2007, pp. 60–69.
• "How Ralegh Became a Courtier", John Donne Journal, 27: 131-140.
• "The Circulation in Manuscript of Poems by King James VI and I", in Renaissance Historicisms: Essays in Honor of Arthur F. Kinney, eds. James M. Dutcher and Anne Lake Prescott, eds. 2008, pp. 206–24.
• "George Puttenham's Lewd and Lascivious Career", Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 50: 143-76.
• "Popularizing Courtly Poetry: Tottel’s Miscellany and its Progeny", in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank, eds. 2009, pp. 418–33.
• "Manuscripts in Tudor England," with Heather Wolfe in A Companion to Tudor Literature, ed. Kent Cartwright. 2010, pp. 125–39.