Author: Aurelian TownshendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Aurelian Townshend's Poems and Masks
Author: Aurelian TownshendAurelian Townshend's Poems and Masks
Author: Aurelian TownshendThe Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend
Author: Aurelian TownshendPublisher: Pegasus Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Aurelian Townshend's Poems and Masks
Author: Aurelian TownshendAurelian Townshend's Poems and Masks (Classic Reprint)
Author: Aurelian TownshendPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331294675
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Excerpt from Aurelian Townshend's Poems and Masks Oblivion has scattered her poppy effectively enough over the name of Aurelian Townshend, who is now but a shadowy figure dimly dis cerned in the background of that bustling London of the early Stuarts and the Civil Wars. Yet in his day he walked with wits and poets, and, for certain touches of rareness here and there in his song. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Criticism and Compliment
Author: Kevin SharpePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521386616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Criticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded Ben Jonson as authors of court entertainments in the England of Charles I. The courtly literature of Caroline England has been dismissed by critics and characterised by historians as propaganda for Charles I's absolutism penned by sycophantic hirelings. Kevin Sharpe questions the assumptions on which these evaluations have been based. Challenging the traditional argument for a polarity between court and country cultures in early Stuart England, he re-reads the plays, poems and masques as primary documents of political attitudes articulated at court. Far from being confined to a decade or a party, the courtly literature of the 1630s is relocated within the broader humanist tradition of counsel. Through the language of love - a language, it is argued, that was part of the discourse of politics in Caroline England - the court poets criticised fundamental premises of the King's political ideology, and counselled traditional and moderate modes of government.
Author: John G. DemarayPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583484213
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this analysis of Milton's artistry as an epic poet, John G. Demaray offers a fresh perspective on one of the world's great epic poems. Placing Paradise Lost against the background of Renaissance theatrical and literary formspageants, baroque spectacles, masques, musical dramas, and Continental heroic worksDemaray offers the first extended critical reading of the poem as a unique theatrical epic incorporating heroic conventions, theological materials, and elements of visual pageantry. He examines Milton's early experiments in prophetic verse and theatrical forms, the poet's exposure to Italian theater and art during travels in 163839, and the influence of classical, Continental, and British works upon evolving drafts of Paradise Lost. He relates the epic in new ways to the writings of Jonson, Dryden, and others. Readers interested in seventeenth-century literature, Renaissance and baroque theater, the epic, religious writings, and the creative processes of Milton's imagination will all find many original insights in Milton's Theatrical Epic.
The Court Masque
Author: Enid WelsfordPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Court Masque
Author: Enid WelsfordPublisher: Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Structure in Milton's Poetry
Author: Ralph W. CondeePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271071885
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Milton's skill in constructing poems whose structure is determined, not by rule or precedent, but by the thought to be expressed, is one of his chief accomplishments as a creative artist. Professor Condee analyzes seventeen of Milton's poems, both early and late, well and badly organized, in order to trace the poet's developing ability to create increasingly complex poetic structures. Three aspects of Milton's use of poetic structure are stressed: the relation of the parts to the whole and parts to parts, his ability to unite actual events with the poetic situation, and his use and variation of literary tradition to establish the desired structural unity.