Author: Norman AultPublisher: London : Longmans, Green
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Elizabethan Lyrics from the Original Texts
Author: Norman AultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-century England
Author: James FitzmauricePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The first comprehensive anthology of seventeenth-century English women writers
The Texts of the Songs
Author: Elise Bickford JorgensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Collected Vocal Music, Part 2
Author: William LawesPublisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895795140
Category : Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with continuo
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Seventeenth Century Lyrics from the Original Texts
Author: Norman AultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
Author: Robert HerrickPublisher:
ISBN: 0199212848
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
This first volume of the new edition of Robert Herrick's poetry contains Herrick's only published collection, Hesperides (1648).
Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric
Author: Arthur F. MarottiPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501728504
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The last of the literary genres to be incorporated into print culture, verse in the English Renaissance not only was published in anthologies, pamphlets, and folio editions, it was also circulated in manuscript. In this ground-breaking historical and cultural study of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century lyric poetry, Marotti examines the interrelationship between the two systems of literary transmission and shows how in England manuscript and print publication together shaped the emerging institution of literature. Surveying a wide range of manuscript and print poetry of the period, Marotti outlines the different social and institutional contexts in which poems were collected and transmitted. He focuses on the two kinds of verse that were circulated more commonly in manuscript than in print—the obscene and the political—and he considers the contributions of scribes and compilers, particularly in composing "answer poetry" and other verse. Analyzing the process through which print gradually replaced manuscript as the standard medium for lyric verse, he identifies four crucial events in the history of publication in England: the appearances of Tottel's Miscellany ( (1557), Sir Philip Sidney's works in the 1590s, Ben Jonson's folio Workes (1616), and the posthumous editions of the poems of Donne and of Herbert (both 1633). Marotti also considers how certain material features of the book determined the reception of poetry, and he explores how poets attempted to establish their authority in print in relation to publishers, patrons, and readers.
Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry
Author: Wendy Beth HymanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019257440X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments or promises, but instead focus on the lovers' anticipated decline, and—quite stunningly given the Reformation context—humanity's relegation not to a Christian afterlife but to a Marvellian 'desert of vast Eternity.' In this way, a poetic trope whose classical form was an expression of pragmatic Epicureanism became, during the religious upheaval of the Reformation, an unlikely but effective vehicle for articulating religious doubt. Its ambitions were thus largely philosophical, and came to incorporate investigations into the nature of matter, time, and poetic representation. Renaissance seduction poets invited their auditors to participate in a dangerous intellectual game, one whose primary interest was expanding the limits of knowledge. The book theorizes how Renaissance lyric's own fragile relationship to materiality and time, and its self-conscious relationship to making, positioned it to grapple with these 'impossible' metaphysical and representational problems. Although attentive to poetics, the book also challenges the commonplace view that the erotic invitation is exclusively a lyrical mode. Carpe diem's revival in post-Reformation Europe portends its radicalization, as debates between man and maid are dramatized in disputes between abstractions like chastity and material facts like death. Offered here is thus a theoretical reconsideration of the generic parameters and aspirations of the carpe diem trope, wherein questions about embodiment and knowledge are also investigations into the potentialities of literary form.
Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
Author: Laura EstillPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1644530473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays. As this under-examined archival evidence shows, play readers and playgoers viewed plays as malleable and modular texts to be altered, appropriated, and, most importantly, used. These records provide information that is not available in other forms about the popularity and importance of early modern plays, the reasons plays appealed to their audiences, and the ideas in plays that most interested audiences. Tracing the course of dramatic extracting from the earliest stages in the 1590s, through the prolific manuscript circulation at the universities, to the closure and reopening of the theatres, Estill gathers these microhistories to create a comprehensive overview of seventeenth-century dramatic extracts and the culture of extracting from plays. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays explores new archival evidence (from John Milton’s signature to unpublished university plays) while also analyzing the popularity of perennial favorites such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The study of dramatic extracts is the study of particulars: particular readers, particular manuscripts, particular plays or masques, particular historic moments. As D. F. McKenzie puts it, “different readers [bring] the text to life in different ways.” By providing careful analyses of these rich source texts, this book shows how active play-viewing and play-reading (that is, extracting) ultimately led to changing the plays themselves, both through selecting and manipulating the extracts and positioning the plays in new contexts. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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