Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice : Classicism in the Rhetoric and Poetic of Italy, France, and England 1400-1600 / Charles Sears Baldwin; Donald Lemen Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldwin, Charles Sears, author.

Contributor:

Clark, Donald Lemen, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1939]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Interprets the rhetoric and poetry of the Renaissance afresh from typical theory and practice as the first step toward interpreting those traditions of criticism which were most influential in the middle ages.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Introduction

Contents

I. The Renaissance as a Literary Period

II. Latin, Greek, and the Vernaculars

III. Imitation of Prose Forms, Ciceronianism, Rhetorics

IV. Imitation in Lyric and Pastoral

V. Romance

VI. Drama

VII. Sixteenth-Century Poetics

VIII. Prose Narrative

IX. Essays

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88959-3

OCLC:

1100453129