Author: R. D. PerryPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843845679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
New investigations into Charles d'Orléans' under-rated poem, its properties and its qualities.
Charles D'Orléans' English Aesthetic
Author: R. D. PerryPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843845679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
New investigations into Charles d'Orléans' under-rated poem, its properties and its qualities.
How to Read Middle English Poetry
Author: Daniel SawyerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198895267
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from the choice of single words, through syntax, metre, rhyme, and stanza-design, up to the play of larger forms across whole poems. How to Read Middle English Poetry covers major figures?such as Chaucer, Langland, the Pearl Poet, and Robert Henryson?but also delves into exciting anonymous lyrics, romances, and drama. It shows, too, how some modern poets have drawn on earlier poems, and how Middle English and early Scots provide crucial standpoints from which to think through present-day writing. Contextual sections discuss how poetry was heard aloud, introduce manuscripts and editing, and lay out Middle English poetry's ties to other tongues, including French, Welsh, and Latin. Critical terms are highlighted and explained both in the main text and in a full indexed glossary, while the uses of key tools such as the Middle English Dictionary are described and modeled. References to accessible editions and electronic resources mean that the book needs no accompanying anthology. At once thorough, wide-ranging, and practical, How to Read Middle English Poetry is indispensable for students exploring Middle English or early Scots, and for anyone curious about the heart of poetry's history.
The Oxford History of Poetry in English
Author: Julia BoffeyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198839685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume explores the developing range of English verse in the century after the death of Chaucer in 1400, years that saw both change and consolidation in traditions of poetic writing in English in the regions of Britain. Chaucer himself was an important shaping presence in the poetry of this period, providing a stimulus to imitation and to creative expansion of the modes he had favoured. In addition to assessing his role, this volume considers a range of literary factors significant to the poetry of the century, including verse forms, literary language, translation, and the idea of the author. It also signals features of the century's history that were important for the production of English verse: responses to wars at home and abroad, dynastic uncertainty, and movements towards religious reform, as well as technological innovations such as the introduction of printing, which brought influential changes to the transmission and reception of verse writing. The volume is shaped to include chapters on the contexts and forms of poetry in English, on the important genres of verse produced in the period, on some of the fifteenth-century's major writers (Lydgate, Hoccleve, Dunbar, and Henryson), and a consideration of the influence of the verse of this century on what was to follow.
Literatures of the Hundred Years War
Author: Daniel DaviesPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526142163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to reveal the transnational literary consequences of over a century of international conflict. While traditionally seen as an Anglo-French conflict, the Hundred Years War was a multilateral conflict with connections across the continent through alliances and proxy battles. Writers, whether as witnesses, diplomats, or provocateurs, played key roles in shaping the conflict, and the conflict equally impacted the course of literary history. The volume shows how a wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses to the war, from women’s visionary writing by figures like Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Thinking of the Middle Ages
Author: Benjamin A. SaltzmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This book examines how mid-twentieth-century intellectuals' engagement with the Middle Ages shaped politics, art, and history.
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Katharine W. JagerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030183343
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and extra-textual methods by which vernacular forms and genres were obtained and examines the roles that performance and orality play in the reception and dissemination of those genres, arguing that late medieval vernacular forms can be used to delineate the interests and perspectives of the subaltern. Via an interdisciplinary approach, contributors use theories of multimodality, translation, manuscript studies, sound studies, gender studies, and activist New Formalism to address how and for whom popular, vernacular medieval forms were made.
Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition
Author: R. D. PerryPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512826030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries formed and maintained the English literary tradition. Perry shows that, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Edmund Spenser, the poets who bridged the medieval and early modern periods created a profusion of coterie forms as they sought to navigate their relationships with their contemporaries and to the vernacular literary traditions that preceded them. Rather than defining coteries solely as historical communities of individuals sharing work, Perry reframes them as products of authors signaling associations with one another across time and space, in life and on the page. From Geoffrey Chaucer’s associations with both his fellow writers in London and with his geographically distant French contemporaries, to Thomas Hoccleve’s emphatic insistence that he was “aqweyntid” with Chaucer even after Chaucer’s death, to John Lydgate’s formations of “virtual coteries” of a wide range of individuals alive and dead who can only truly come together on the page, the book traces how writers formed the English literary tradition by signaling social connections. By forming coteries, both real and virtual, based on shared appreciation of a literary tradition, these authors redefine what should be valued in that tradition, shaping and reshaping it accordingly. Perry shows how our notion of the English literary tradition came to be and how it could be imagined otherwise.
Charles D'Orléans in England
Author: Mary-Jo ArnPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0859915808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Studies of evidence of Charles d'Orleans as scholar, politician and poet during his 25 years of captivity in England
Canon, Period, and the Poetry of Charles of Orleans
Author: Anne Elizabeth Banks ColdironPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472111466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A literary and historical study of the first single-author book of lyric poetry in English
Arthur O'Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum
Author: Jordan KistlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317178300
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Arthur O'Shaughnessy's career as a natural historian in the British Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with the role of work in his life, provides the context with which to reexamine his contributions to Victorian poetry. O'Shaughnessy's engagement with aestheticism, socialism, and Darwinian theory can be traced to his career as a Junior Assistant at the British Museum, and his perception of the burden of having to earn a living outside of art. Making use of extensive archival research, Jordan Kistler demonstrates that far from being merely a minor poet, O'Shaughnessy was at the forefront of later Victorian avant-garde poetry. Her analyses of published and unpublished writings, including correspondence, poetic manuscripts, and scientific notebooks, demonstrate O'Shaughnessy's importance to the cultural milieu of the 1870s, particularly his contributions to English aestheticism, his role in the importation of decadence from France, and his unique position within contemporary debates on science and literature.