Classical Genres And English Poetry Routledge Revivals

Author : William H. Race
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317620716

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Classical Genres and English Poetry (Routledge Revivals) by William H. Race Pdf

First published in 1988, this study explains how certain genres created by Classical poets were adapted and sometimes transformed by the poets of the modern world, beginning with the Tudor poets’ rediscovery of the Classical heritage. Most of the long-lived poetic genres are discussed, from familiar examples like the hymn, elegy and eulogy, to less familiar topics such as the recusatio (refusal to write certain kinds of poems), or formal structures such as priamel. By combining criticism with literary history, the author explores the degree to which certain poets were consciously imitating models, and demonstrates how various generic forms reflect the literary concerns of individual poets as well as the general concerns of their age. The poets discussed range over the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity, and in English from Wyatt to Yeats and Auden. A detailed and fascinating title, this study will appeal to teachers and students of both English and Classical literature.

Author : William H. Race
Publisher : Croom Helm Limited
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Classical poetry
ISBN : 0415003261

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Classical Genres and English Poetry by William H. Race Pdf

Author : Heather Dubrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317671930

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Genre (Routledge Revivals) by Heather Dubrow Pdf

This study, first published in 1982, explores and demonstrates the ways in which an awareness of literary genre can illuminate works as diverse as Milton’s ‘Lycidas’ and Berryman’s Sonnets. The first book to offer a historical survey of genre theory, it traces the history from the Greek rhetoricians to such contemporary figures as Frye and Todorov. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways in which comments on genre reflect underlying aesthetic attitudes.

Author : Eric Rothstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317589181

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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780 (Routledge Revivals) by Eric Rothstein Pdf

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780, originally published in 1981, considers poetry written between 1660 and 1780, a period which, although largely recovered from its nineteenth-century reputation, still attracts widely varying critical responses. Abandoning the old labels such as ‘neoclassicism’, ‘romanticism’ and ‘sensibility’, the author focuses on descriptions of genres and their formal elements and traces the broader patterns of literary and historical change running through the period. Eric Rothstein describes different poetic modes- panegyric, satire, pastoral and topographical poetry, the epistle, and the ode- to suggest their aesthetical possibilities as well as their process of change. He also considers style and the uses of the past, topics which have often caused particular problems for the students of the period. What becomes clear is the extraordinary originality, flexibility and power with which Restoration and eighteenth-century poets handles the stylistic assumptions and the body of poems they inherited and employed in their own works.

Author : B. Ifor Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351386159

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Routledge Revivals: English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century (1933) by B. Ifor Evans Pdf

First published in 1933, this study, which underwent revision in the 1960s, is a comprehensive survey of the verse of English nineteenth-century poets whose work appeared after 1860. A special feature is the full and critical treatment of minor writers. In no other book is their work so carefully evaluated. There is a full account of the minor Pre-Raphaelites, of James Thomson, the poet of The City of Dreadful Night, of Henley, Stevenson and George MacDonald. John Davidson is the subject of a long and revealing study. Evans suggests that poetry from the late nineteenth century is neglected in scholarly study, and that Victorian Romanticism deserves more attention than it has recently received.

Author : C.D.N. Costa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317801979

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Horace (Routledge Revivals) by C.D.N. Costa Pdf

Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence on later European literature. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the different aspects of Horace’s poetic achievement in his main works: the Odes, Epistles ̧ Satires and Ars Poetica. The essays, written by internationally-known scholars, include a discussion of the three worlds of the Satires, and a study of Horace’s poetic craft in the Odes – his greatest technical accomplishment. The final chapter is devoted entirely to Horace’s reputation in England up to the seventeenth century as ‘The Best of Lyrick Poets’, and concentrates on the many English translations which he inspired. The expert criticism is illustrated throughout by English translations from the original Latin texts. Horace will appeal to students and scholars of Latin poetry alike, as well as to those interested in the reception of classical literature throughout European history.

Author : J. W. Binns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Didactic poetry, Latin
ISBN : 0415740177

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Ovid (Routledge Revivals) by J. W. Binns Pdf

Ovid, Rome's most cynical and worldly love poet, has not until recently been highly regarded among Latin poets. Now, however, his reputation is growing, and this volume is an important contribution to the re-establishment of Ovid's claims to critical attention. This collection of essays ranges over a wide variety of themes and works: Ovid's development of the Elegiac tradition handed down to him from Propertius, Catullus and Tibullus; the often disparaged and neglected Heroides; the poetry of Ovid's miserable exile by the Black Sea; the poetic diction of the Metamorphoses, Ovid's lengthy mythological epic which codified classical myth and legend, and has strong claims to be considered, with the exception of Virgil's Aeneid, Rome's greatest epic poem; humour and the blending of the didactic and elegiac traditions in the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Finally, Ovid's incomparable influence in the Middle Ages and sixteenth century is examined.

Author : Paul E. Szarmach,M. Teresa Tavormina,Joel T. Rosenthal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351666374

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998) by Paul E. Szarmach,M. Teresa Tavormina,Joel T. Rosenthal Pdf

First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.

Author : Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351664431

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy (2004) by Christopher Kleinhenz Pdf

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.

Author : Jonathan Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317539797

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Reading the Renaissance (Routledge Revivals) by Jonathan Hart Pdf

Reading the Renaissance, first published in 1996, is a collection of essays discussing the literature, drama, poetics and culture of the Renaissance period. The Renaissance, which extends from about 1300 to 1700 depending on the country, was originally a rebirth of the arts but has also come to apply to the wider cultural change in the face of modernization. The essays represent a plural Renaissance and explore the boundaries between genre and gender, languages and literatures, reading and criticism, the Renaissance and the medieval, the early modern and the postmodern, world and theatre. There is also a plurality of methods that is fitting for the variety of topics and the richness of the Renaissance. This book is ideal for students of literature and theatre studies.

Author : David Duff,David D. Duff
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199572748

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Romanticism and the Uses of Genre by David Duff,David D. Duff Pdf

This reappraisal of the role of genre in Romanticism explores the generic innovations that drove the Romantic 'revolution in literature'. Also examined is the movement's fascination with archaic forms such as the ballad, the sonnet, and the epic, the revival of which made Romanticism a 'retro' as well as a revolutionary movement.

Author : Robert H. Ray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317681779

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An Andrew Marvell Companion (Routledge Revivals) by Robert H. Ray Pdf

First published in 1998, this title provides for the reader of the renowned metaphysical poet and politician a valuable reference and resource volume. It is a compendium of useful information for any reader of Andrew Marvell, including crucial biographical material, historical contextualisation, and details about his life’s work. The intention throughout is to enhance understanding and appreciation, without being exhaustive. The major portion of the volume, in both importance and size, is ‘A Marvell Dictionary’. Its entries are arranged alphabetically: they identify, describe and explain the most influential persons in Marvell’s life and works, as well as places, characters, allusions, ideas, concepts, individual words, phrases and literary terms that are relevant to a rounded appreciation of his poetry and prose. An Andrew Marvell Companion will prove invaluable for all students of English poetry and seventeenth-century political history.

Author : Silvio Bär,Emily Hauser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350039339

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Reading Poetry, Writing Genre by Silvio Bär,Emily Hauser Pdf

This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. “Genre” has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history of genre criticism, which begins with Aristotle. In a similar vein, recent developments in genre studies have suggested that literary genres are not given or fixed entities, but subjective and unstable (as well as historically situated), and that the reception of genre by both writers and scholars feeds back into the way genre is articulated in specific literary works. Classical scholarship, literary criticism, and genre form a triangle of key concepts for the volume, approached in different ways and with different productive results by contributors from across the disciplines of Classics and English literature. Covering topics from the establishment of genre in the Middle Ages to the invention of female epic and the epyllion, and bringing together the works of English poets from Milton to Tennyson to Josephine Balmer, the essays collected hereargue that the reception and criticism of classical texts play a crucial part in generic formation in English poetry.

Author : Humphrey Tonkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317612490

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The Faerie Queene (Routledge Revivals) by Humphrey Tonkin Pdf

Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is among the most important literary products of the Elizabethan age, and the vast sweep of its moral, political and social concerns tells us more about the age than any other work. This volume, first published in 1989, offers detailed readings of each of the poem’s seven books, along with introductory chapters on Spenser’s career, and the roots of the poem in the English and continental traditions. Humphrey Tonkin pays particular attention to the work’s political and cultural role and its contribution to the development of Elizabethan ideology. A comprehensive analysis, this reissue will be of particular value to literature students and academics alike.

Author : Sean Duffy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351666176

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Ireland (2005) by Sean Duffy Pdf

Through violent incursions by the Vikings and the spread of Christianity, medieval Ireland maintained a distinctive Gaelic identity. From the sacred site of Tara to the manuscript illuminations in the Book of Kells, Anglo-Irish relations to the Connachta dynasty, Ireland during the middle ages was a rich and vivid culture. First published in 2005, Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia brings together in one authoritative resource the multiple facets of life in Ireland before and after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169, from the sixth to sixteenth century. Multidisciplinary in coverage, this A-Z reference work provides information on historical events, economics, politics, the arts, religion, intellectual history, and many other aspects of the period. Written by the world's leading scholars on the subject, this highly accessible reference work will be of key interest to students, researchers, and general readers alike.