Cheney, Patrick, 1949-
Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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Part of the series Reading poetry;Reading poetry.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-322) and index.
- The pleasures and uses of sixteenth-century poetry — pt. 1. 1500-1558. Reading early Tudor poetry: Henrician, Edwardian, Marian — pt. 2. 1558-1600: reading Elizabethan poetry — pt. 3. A special case — Retrospective poetry: Donne and the end of sixteenth-century poetry.
- 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. — Publisher’s website.
Subjects:
- English poetry — 16th century — History and criticism.
- English poetry — Appreciation.
- England — Intellectual life — 16th century.
- 1500 – 1599 fast
- Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635
Requested by Green, D.