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Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry
Contributor(s): Cheney, Patrick (Author)

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 ISBN: 1405169540     ISBN-13: 9781405169547
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE: $38.90  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.309
LCCN: 2010043495
Series: Blackwell Reading Poetry
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" L (1.45 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 10/01/2011
 
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Publisher Description:
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
 
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