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Author: M. C. Bradbrook
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1979-07-05
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780521295284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1979 study relates Shakespeare's work to the poetry, criticism and life of his age. Drawing upon a considerable body of evidence, it shows how Shakespeare was influenced by medieval thought, by classical sources, by the popular verse and the theatre of his day, and by the Elizabethan use of language.
Author: Bob Blaisdell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-05
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0486113639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology includes sonnets from Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser; popular poems by Donne ("Go, and catch a falling star"), Jonson ("Drink to me only with thine eyes"), Marlowe ("The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"); more.
Author: Sukanta Chaudhuri
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780195632040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handy but wide-ranging selection of Elizabethan poetry covers all the major poets and most of the important genres cultivated in that age. Sukanta Chaudhuri traces Elizabethan poetry from its beginnings, dividing it by type of verse--pastoral, Elizabethan sonnet, lyrics, the Epyllion, and didactic poetry. Poets represented include Sir Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spencer, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, and Michael Drayton, among others.
Author: R.E. Pritchard
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2012-07-27
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1847776175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive introductory anthology of poems by forty women writers from Elizabethan to Victorian times includes work by aristocrats and frame-workers, by celebrated figures such as Aphra Behn, the Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, and by fascinating but hitherto inaccessible poets such as the unaccountably neglected Margaret Cavendish and Mary Leapor. Love songs, feminist polemic, witty satire and religious rhapsody, bawdy fun and grave meditation abound. Dr R.E. Pritchard in a brief introduction considers the social and publishing difficulties encountered by writing women. The texts are tactfully modernized and annotated. Each poet is introduced with a biographical sketch, followed by suggestions for further reading. Compact yet varied and far-ranging, this anthology will provide enjoyment for any poetry reader and the introduction raises the issues crucial to those interested in the hidden traditions of women's poetry.
Author: Ilona Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521630078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1999 book offers an original study of lyric form and social custom in the Elizabethan age. Ilona Bell explores the tendency of Elizabethan love poems not only to represent an amorous thought, but to conduct the courtship itself. Where studies have focused on courtiership, patronage and preferment at court, her focus is on love poetry, amorous courtship, and relations between Elizabethan men and women. The book examines the ways in which the tropes and rhetoric of love poetry were used to court Elizabethan women (not only at court and in the great houses, but in society at large) and how the women responded to being wooed, in prose, poetry and speech. Bringing together canonical male poets and women writers, Ilona Bell investigates a range of texts addressed to, written by, read, heard or transformed by Elizabethan women, and charts the beginnings of a female lyric tradition.
Author: Hallett Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780674365100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bart Van Es
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780199249701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Spenser's Forms of History, Bart Van Es presents an engaging study of the ways in which Edmund Spenser utilized a number of "forms of history"--chronicle, antiquarian discourse, secular typology, political prophecy, and others--in both his poetry and his prose, and assesses their collective impact on Elizabethan poetry.
Author: Albert Charles Hamilton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 884
ISBN-13: 9780802079237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works and influence. Over 700 entries by 422 contributors, an index and extensive bibliography.
Author: Susan Doran
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-15
Total Pages: 735
ISBN-13: 1317565797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to a period which saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the explorations of Francis Drake and Walter Ralegh, the establishment of the Protestant Church, the flourishing of commercial theatre and the works of Edmund Spencer, Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare. Encompassing social, political, cultural, religious and economic history, and crossing several disciplines, The Elizabethan World depicts a time of transformation, and a world order in transition. Topics covered include central and local government; political ideas; censorship and propaganda; parliament, the Protestant Church, the Catholic community; social hierarchies; women; the family and household; popular culture, commerce and consumption; urban and rural economies; theatre; art; architecture; intellectual developments ; exploration and imperialism; Ireland, and the Elizabethan wars. The volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular culture, the world of work and social practices fit together in an exciting world of change, and will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Elizabethan period.
Author: Steven W. May
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough the term courtier poet is widely used in discussions of Elizabethan literature, it has never been carefully defined. In this study, Steven W.May isolates the elite social environment of the court by defining the words court and courtier as they were understood by Tudor aristocrats. He examines the types of poems that these poets wrote, the occasions for which they wrote, and the nature of the poems themselves.
