English Poetry To 1700
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| Author | : David Fairer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2014-10-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317892887 |
In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.
| Author | : Michael Alexander |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780520015043 |
| Author | : Michael Schmidt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : English poetry |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Brian Vickers |
| Publisher | : SIU Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780809314966 |
Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism from Ancient Greece to the end of the 18th century. The core of the book is a quite original argument that the figures of rhetoric were not mere mechanical devices, were not, as many believed, a "nuisance, a quite sterile appendage to rhetoric to which (unaccountably) teachers, pupils, and writers all over the world devoted much labor for over 2,000 years." Rather, Vickers demonstrates, rhetoric was a stylized representation of language and human feelings. Vickers supplements his argument through analyses of the rhetorical and emotional structure of four Renaissance poems. He also defines 16 of the most common figures of rhetoric, citing examples from the classics, the Bible, and major English poets from Chaucer to Pope.
| Author | : Nalini Jain |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 650 |
| Release | : 2016-07-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1315504715 |
This anthology of 18th-century English poetry is extensively annotated for a new generation of readers. It combines the scope of a period anthology with the detailed annotations of an authoritative single-author edition. Selected poets include John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope and William Cowper. The guiding principle of the annotation is one of thoroughness: the editors concentrate on works where the meanings have changed, on primary allusions and on relevant details of social and political history.
| Author | : John Hollander |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 467 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : English poetry |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Michael Alexander |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2008-05-29 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141918764 |
This selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and strength, in excerpts from Beowulf and in The Battle of Brunanburgh, depicting King Athelstan’s defeat of his northern enemies in 937 AD, while The Wanderer and The Seafarer reflect on exile, loss and destiny. The Gnomic Verses are proverbs on the natural order of life, and the Exeter Riddles are witty linguistic puzzles. Love elegies include emotional speeches from an abandoned wife and separated lovers, and devotional poems include a vision of Christ’s cross in The Dream of the Rood, and Caedmon’s Hymn, perhaps the oldest poem in English, speaking in praise of God.
| Author | : Robert M. Schuler |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 712 |
| Release | : 2013-02-11 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1136159282 |
Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy. Each has a textual and historical introduction and explanatory note by the Editor. Renaissance alchemy is acknowledged as an important element in the histories of early modern science and medicine. This book emphasises these poems’ expression of and shaping influence on religious, social and political values and institutions of their time too and is a useful reference work with much to offer for cultural studies and literary studies as well as science and history.
| Author | : John Donne |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 659 |
| Release | : 2004-06-24 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141916036 |
No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, is an intensity of feeling and expression and complexity of argument that is as evident in religious meditations such as 'Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward' as it is in secular love poems such as 'The Sun Rising' or 'The Flea'. 'The intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion,' wrote Yeats, pinpointing the unique genius of a poet who combined ardour and intellect in equal measure.
| Author | : John Sitter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2011-10-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139502468 |
For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this introduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the major poets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter begins by offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets to blank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poets of the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience, feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses of individual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray, Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetry and major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides a grounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readers of literature.
