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British Renaissance Re-Attribution and Modernization Series: Volume 17
出版Anaphora Literary Press, 2023-05-15
主題Literary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)
ISBN16811459529781681145952
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hTvtzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A comparative anthology of all of the variedly-bylined texts in William Byrd's linguistic-group, with scholarly introductions that solve previously impenetrable literary mysteries.This is a comparative anthology of William Byrd's multi-bylined verse, with scholarly introductions to their biographies, borrowings, and generic and structural formulas. The tested Byrd-group includes 30 texts with 29 different bylines. Each of these texts is covered in a separate chronologically-organized section. This anthology includes modernized translations of some of the greatest and the wittiest poetry of the Renaissance. Some of these poems are the most famous English poems ever written, while others have never been modernized before. These poems serve merely as a bridge upon which a very different history of early British poetry and music is reconstructed, through the alternative history of the single ghostwriter behind them. This history begins with two forgeries that are written in an antique Middle English style, while simultaneously imitating Virgil's Eclogues: "Alexander Barclay's" claimed translation of Pope Pius II's Eclogues (1514?) and "John Skelton's" Eclogues (1521?). The next attribution mystery solved is how only a single poem assigned to "Walter Rawely of the Middle Temple" (when Raleigh is not known to have been a member of this Inn of Court) in The Steal Glass: A Satire (1576) has snowballed into entire anthologies of poetry that continue to be assigned to "Raleigh" as their "author". Matthew Lownes assigned the "Edmund Spenser"-byline for the first time in 1611 to the previously anonymous Shepherds' Calendar (1579) to profit from the popularity of the appended to it Fairy Queen. And "Thomas Watson" has been credited with creating Hekatompathia (1582), when this was his first book-length attempt in English; and this collection has been described as the first Petrarchan sonnet sequence in English, when actually most of these poems have 18-line, instead of 14-line stanzas. Byrd's self-attributed Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs (1588) includes several lyrics that have since been re-assigned erroneously to other bylines in this collection, such as "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" being re-assigned to "Sir Edward Dyer". The Byrd chapter also describes the history of his music-licensing monopoly...