Poetic Language

Poetic Language
Author: Tom Jones
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-07-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748656189

The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspectiveIn a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, John Milton,William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, W. S. Graham, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley and Thomas A. Clark - are read alongside theoretical discussions of poetic language. The discussions provide a jargon-free account of a wide range of historical and contemporary schools of thought about poetic language, and an organised, coherent critique of those schools (including analytical philosophy, cognitive poetics, structuralism and post-structuralism). Via close readings of poems from 1600 to the present readers are taken through a wide range of styles including modernist, experimental and innovative poetries. Paired chapters within a chronological structure allow lecturers and students to approach the material in a variety of ways (by individual chapters, paired historical periods) that are appropriate to different courses.

Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance

Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
Author: David Norbrook
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199247196

This 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.

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
Author: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134844174

Since 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.

Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance

Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Virginia Cox
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2013-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1421408880

This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies.--Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650

Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry

Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry
Author: Stephen Guy-Bray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2022-02-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781785279096

This book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems. I'll begin with an introduction summarizing the work that has already been done in this area and demonstrating my own method. The main part of the book will be divided into three chapters: one on rhyme; one on enjambment; and one on the sestina. These are the most significant kinds of line endings used by English Renaissance poets. The book ends with a brief afterword, in which I'll summarize my findings and sketch out some new areas for research.

A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture
Author: Michael Hattaway
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0470998725

This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.

The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
Author: Andrew Hui
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2017-01-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0823273369

The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to document this cultural phenomenon, Andrew Hui explains how the invention of the ruin propelled poets into creating works that were self-aware of their absorption of the past as well as their own survival in the future.

Renaissance Literature

Renaissance Literature
Author: Michael Payne
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 1184
Release: 2003-02-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780631198987

Responding 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.