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Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry
Patrick Cheney
出版
John Wiley & Sons
, 2011-05-03
主題
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
ISBN
1444396552
9781444396553
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_RDiGyrEO3kC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry
combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry.
Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres
Poems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution
Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare
Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare’s major poems -
Venus and Adonis
,
The Rape of Lucrece
, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the
Sonnets
, and
A Lover's Complaint-
in the context of his dramatic career
Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler