The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne
Title | The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas L. Peterson |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2015-12-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1400877342 |
The author rejects C.S. Lewis's theory of a "Drab" and a “Golden” school as unhistorical, and establishes the presence of an eloquent or courtly tradition and of a plain or contemplative tradition. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The English Lyric Tradition
Title | The English Lyric Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | R. James Goldstein |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2017-03-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476627568 |
Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse--lyrical works written at a time before poetry was assumed to be about personal expression. This readers' guide introduces to a 21st century audience some of the greatest masterpieces of English poetry spanning five centuries. Focusing on poems by Chaucer, Wyatt, Shakespeare, Milton and others, the author discusses the development of poetic technique, explains the rhetorical culture of earlier centuries and describes the various lyric forms--including lover's complaints, sonnets and elegies--that poets used to communicate with readers.
Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period
Title | Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Decker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 301 |
Release | 2021-09-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000435490 |
Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group of people, or a particular person, received and made sense of sermons, public proclamations, dramatic and musical performances, images, objects, and spaces. The ways in which each of these were framed and executed could have a serious impact on their relevance and effectiveness. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which authors, poets, artists, preachers, theologians, playwrights, and performers took account of and encoded pluriform potential audiences, readers, and viewers in their works, and how these varied parties encountered and responded to these works. The contributors here investigate these complex interactions through a variety of critical and methodological lenses.
Grief and English Renaissance Elegy
Title | Grief and English Renaissance Elegy PDF eBook |
Author | G. W. Pigman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1985-02-28 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0521268710 |
Explores the changing attitude of sixteenth century poets towards funeral poems.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
Title | The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | George Watson |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Total Pages | 1296 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
American and British Poetry
Title | American and British Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet Semmes Alexander |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 512 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780719017063 |
Tudor England
Title | Tudor England PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur F. Kinney |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 863 |
Release | 2000-11-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136745300 |
This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays. Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux family * Espionage * Family of Love * food and diet * James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell * inns * Ket's Rebellion * John Lyly * mapmaking * Frances Meres * miniature painting * Pavan * Pilgrimage of Grace * Revels Office * Ridolfi plot * Lady Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke * treason * and much more. Also includes an 8-page color insert.