Poetry of the English Renaissance 1509-1660
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 1076
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Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
Author: David Norbrook
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780199247196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists, responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.
English Renaissance Poetry
Author: John Williams
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncluded in this volume are poems by Skelton, More, Wyatt, Vaux, Surrey, Gascoigne, Googe, Turberville, Dyer, Ralegh, Spenser, Sidney, Greville, Peele, Greene, Lodge, Daniel, Drayton, the English Madrigalists, Shakespeare, Campion, Nashe, Donne, and Jonson.
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
Author: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1134844174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.
English Renaissance Poetry
Author: John Williams
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2016-02-23
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1590179773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE AUTHOR OF STONER Poetry in English as we know it was largely invented in England between the early 1500s and 1630, and yet for many years the poetry of the era was considered little more than a run-up to Shakespeare. The twentieth century brought a reevaluation, and the English Renaissance has since come to be recognized as the period of extraordinary poetic experimentation that it was. Never since have the possibilities of poetic form and, especially, poetic voice—from the sublime to the scandalous and slangy—been so various and inviting. This is poetry that speaks directly across the centuries to the renaissance of poetic exploration in our own time. John Williams’s celebrated anthology includes not only some of the most famous poems by some of the most famous poets of the English language (Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Donne, and of course Shakespeare) but also-—-and this is what makes Williams’s book such a rare and rich resource—the strikingly original work of little-known masters like George Gascoigne and Fulke Greville.
Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance
Author: Katarzyna Lecky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-04-11
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0192571753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKatarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era's de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.
Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance
Author: O. B. Hardison Jr.
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2019-12-01
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1421430886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1989. In Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance the eminent scholar O. B. Hardison Jr. sets out "to recover the special kinds of music inherent in English Renaissance poetry." The book begins with a thorough and wide-ranging survey of the development of prosodic theory from the ancient ars metrica tradition to the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on such issues as the relation of verse form and genre, the relation of syntax to prosody, and the role of language reform in shaping Renaissance prosody. The second part of the book considers the impact of prosodic traditions on specific literary works and verse forms, among them Surrey's Aeneid, Heywood's translation of Seneca's Thyestes, Sackville and Norton's Gorboduc, and the dramatic and epic verse of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Throughout, Hardison examines not only how poets crafted their verse but why. He explores authorial purposes ranging from technical attempts to match sound and genre to the lofty aims of improving the vernacular or ennobling culture, from the dramatist's practical search for verse forms suited to the stage to Milton's quest for a meter fit to convey divine relation.
Renaissance Literature
Author: Michael Payne
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2003-02-14
Total Pages: 1184
ISBN-13: 9780631198987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResponding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, this accessible anthology balances a generous selection of familiar Renaissance figures with important texts by women writers. Includes important texts by women writers alongside more familiar Renaissance masters. Offers many key works of the period in their entirety. Introductions and annotations to the texts reflect the developments in critical and cultural theory as well as the current state of Renaissance scholarship. One of the first anthologies to include cross-references to materials available on the Internet.
A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance
Author: Sukanta Chaudhuri
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1526127008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016). The full-length Introduction examines English Renaissance pastoral against the history of the mode from antiquity to the present, with its multifarious themes and social affinities. The study covers many genres – eclogue, lyric, georgic, country-house poem, ballad, romantic epic, prose romance – and major practitioners – Theocritus, Virgil, Sidney, Spenser, Drayton and Milton. It also charts the circulation of pastoral texts, with implications for all early modern poetry. All poems in the Anthology were edited from the original texts; the Companion documents the sources and variant readings in unprecedented detail for a cross-section of early modern poetry. Includes notes on the poets and analytical indices. The Companion is indispensable not only to users of the Anthology but to all students and advanced scholars of Renaissance poetry.
Renaissance Poetry
Author: Cristina Malcomson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1317899989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, the first single volume to collate essays about sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry, explores the remarkable changes that have occurred in the interpretation of English Renaissance poetry in the last twenty years. In the introduction Cristina Malcolmson argues that recent critical approaches have transformed traditional accounts of literary history by analysing the role of poetry in nationalism, the changing associations of poetry and class-status, and the rediscovered writings of women. The collection represents many of the critical methodologies which have contributed to these changes: new historicism, cultural materialism, feminism, and an historically informed psychoanalytic criticism. In particular, three diverse readings of Spenser's 'Bower of Bliss' canto illustrate the different approaches of formalist close-reading, new historicist analysis of cultural imperialism and feminist interpretations of the relation of gender and power. The further reading section categorizes recent work according to issues and critical approaches.
