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The Renaissance epic and the oral past / Anthony Welch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welch, Anthony, 1975-
- Series:
- Yale studies in English.
- Yale studies in English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, European--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, European.
- Epic literature, European--Classical influences.
- Epic literature, European.
- European poetry--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
- European poetry.
- European literature--17th century--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 260 p.).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.According to Anthony Welch, the theory and practice of epic poetry in this period-including little-known attempts by many epic poets to have their work orally recited or set to music-must be understood in the context of Renaissance musical humanism. Welch's approach leads to a fresh perspective on a literary culture that stood on the brink of a new relationship with antiquity and on the history of music in the early modern era.
- Contents:
- Tasso's silent lyre
- The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser
- Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale
- Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler
- Milton's lament
- Epic opera
- Coda: The singer withdraws.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300188998
- 0300188994
- OCLC:
- 820203660
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