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The English lyric tradition : reading poetic masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance / R. James Goldstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldstein, R. James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
- English poetry.
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.
- Lyric poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 Recurso online (225 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
- Summary:
- "This readers' guide introduces to a 21st-century audience some of the greatest masterpieces of English poetry spanning five centuries. Focusing on poems by Chaucer, Wyatt, Shakespeare, Milton and others, the author discusses the development of poetic technique, explains the rhetorical culture of earlier centuries and describes the various lyric forms--including lover's complaints, sonnets and elegies"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Canonical forms
- Vernacular eloquence: reading older poetry rhetorically
- What was a lyric poem?
- Anonymous Middle English lyrics on the Virgin Mary
- The love complaint ballade: Chaucer and Wyatt
- The love sonnet from Wyatt to Shakespeare
- The country house poem: Lanyer and Jonson
- The pastoral elegy: Milton's "Lycidas"
- Coda: The Irish dancer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 18, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9781476627564
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