Author: John EglingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Celtic, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Bards and Saints
Author: John EglingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Celtic, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Bards and Saints
Author: William Kirkpatrick MageePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Celtic, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Taliesin, Or, The Bards and Druids of Britain
Author: David William NashPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
American Bards
Author: Edward WhitleyPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807899429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national poet, and that his working-class upbringing and radical take on human sexuality often put him at odds with American culture. While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three of Whitman's contemporaries who adopted similar personae: James M. Whitfield, an African American separatist and abolitionist; Eliza R. Snow, a Mormon pioneer and women's leader; and John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee journalist and Native-rights advocate. These three poets not only provide a counterpoint to the Whitmanian persona of the outsider bard, but they also reframe the criteria by which generations of scholars have characterized Whitman as America's poet. This effort to resituate Whitman's place in American literary history provides an innovative perspective on the most familiar poet of the United States and the culture from which he emerged.
Patrons and Patron Saints in Early Modern English Literature
Author: Alison ChapmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135132313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period. Writers like Jonson, Shakespeare, Spenser, Drayton, Donne and, Milton all use medieval patron saints in order to represent and to challenge early modern ideas of patronage -- not just patronage in the narrow sense of the immediate economic relations obtaining between client and sponsor, but also patronage as a society-wide system of obligation and reward that itself crystallized a whole culture’s assumptions about order and degree. The works studied in this book -- ranging from Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, written early in the 1590s, to Milton’s Masque Performed at Ludlow Castle, written in 1634 -- are patronage works, either aimed at a specific patron or showing a keen awareness of the larger patronage system. This volume challenges the idea that the early modern world had shrugged off its own medieval past, instead arguing that Protestant writers in the period were actively using the medieval Catholic ideal of the saint as a means to represent contemporary systems of hierarchy and dependence. Saints had been the ideal -- and idealized -- patrons of the medieval world and remained so for early modern English recusants. As a result, their legends and iconographies provided early modern Protestant authors with the perfect tool for thinking about the urgent and complex question of who owed allegiance to whom in a rapidly changing world.
The legends of Saint Patrick. Oiseen the Bard and Saint Patrick. Antar and Zara. Legends of Ireland's heroic age
Author: Aubrey De VereThe Bardic Museum, of Primitive British Literature; and Other Admirable Rarities;
Author: Edward JonesPublisher:
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Category : Bardes (Poètes)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Author: Aubrey De Vere
Author: Ossian
Author: Edward Jones