A companion to Renaissance poetry /
"The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520-1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides student...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley Blackwell,
2018
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Contexts; Transitions and Translations; Chapter 1 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry; References; Chapter 2 Translation and Translations; Introduction; Early Developments, Foreign Foundations; Genre and Form; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty; Echo Repetita; Untimely Love or "Spare the Buds"; Notes; References; Further Reading; Religions and Reformations.
- Chapter 4 Poetry and Sacrament in the English RenaissanceIncarnation, Sacrament, Controversy; Poetic Text/Eucharistic Context; William Alabaster's "The Sponge"; Robert Southwell's "Christs Bloody Sweate"; "The Altar"Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 "A sweetness ready penn'd": English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era; Marking and Contesting Confessionalism; Measuring the Bible; Imagining Community; Penning Love; Notes; References; Authorships and Authorities; Chapter 6 Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission; Introduction.
- Occasional Verse and Manuscript TransmissionTudor and Early Stuart Poets and Manuscript Circulation; Coda; Notes; References; Chapter 7 Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 8 Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution; Notes; References; Chapter 9 Female Authorship; Introduction; Authorship Studies; The Problems of Female Authorship; (Mis)reading Hester Pulter; Notes; References; Chapter 10 Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the "Religious Poet"; Note; References; Further Reading; Defenses and Definitions.
- Chapter 11 Theories and Philosophies of PoetryIntroduction; Truth; Function; Form; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 12 Tudor Verse Form: : Rudeness, Artifice, and Display; The Progress of Poesy: Rudeness and the Motives of Decorum; The Practical Inheritance; Quantitative Metrics and the Cultivation of the Line; Puttenham, Print, and the Strophe; Notes; References; Chapter 13 Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form; Practice and Theory; A Taxonomy of Terms; A Model of Genre; Renaissance Genre Theory; Renaissance Fictions of Genre; Printing Genre; References.
- Part II Forms and GenresEpic and Epyllion; Chapter 14 Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 15 Paradise Lost: Experimental and Unorthodox Sacred Epic; Choosing a Subject; Visionary Epic; Unorthodox Theological Epic; Material Cosmos; Human Sexuality and Gender Relations; Domestic Relations and Tragedy; Politics, Tyranny, and Dissent; Notes; References; Chapter 16 Forms of Creativity in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 17 The Epyllion; References; Further Reading; Lyric.
