Author: Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden Erc
Author: The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden
Author: William DrummondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden Etc.
Author: The poetical works of William Drummond of Hawthornden, with 'A cypresse grove'
Author: William DrummondScottish Text Society
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialect literature, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Some vols of the Publications include reports of the society and lists of members.
Plurality of Words
Author: Steven J. DickPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521319850
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book analyses the debate over extraterrestrial life from Aristotle to Kant.
The Sonnet
Author: Stephen ReganPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191540595
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, and still used centuries later by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, and Carol Ann Duffy. This book traces the development of the sonnet from its origins in medieval Italy to its widespread acceptance in modern Britain, Ireland, and America. It shows how the sonnet emerges from the aristocratic courtly centres of Renaissance Europe and gradually becomes the chosen form of radical political poets such as Milton. The book draws on detailed critical analysis of some of the best-known sonnets written in English to explain how the sonnet functions as a poetic form, and it argues that the flexibility and versatility of the sonnet have given it a special place in literary history and tradition.
As you Like it
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786485973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This annotated version of As you Like it, one of the Bard's wittiest and bawdiest plays, provides a detailed guide to its Elizabethan language and its references. It restores the drama to the language of the First Folio of 1623, including the original spelling, capitalization and punctuation. Practical annotation provides insights into the puns, allusions and world-play that characterize all of Shakespeare's dramas. Appendices enumerate the typographical errors that have been corrected in this version, in addition to offering stage directions from the First Folio, lineation amendations and original character tags. This restorative, no-nonsense approach will appeal to both aficionados and newcomers to Shakespeare's plays.
Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent
Author: Marie H. LoughlinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000539709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Focusing on Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth’s use of the figures of origin, descent, and inheritance in their poetry and prose, this book examines how these central women writers situated themselves in terms of early modern England’s rich ancestral cultures, employing these and other genealogical concepts to talk about authorship, family, selfhood, and memory. In turn, both Sidney Herbert and Sidney Wroth also shaped their works in relation to the ways in which writers within their familial communities and literary coteries constructed them as Sidneys, heirs, descendants, and future ancestors, in genres ranging from the patronage dedication and pastoral eclogue to mythographic genealogia and georgic poetry. In the intersection of ancestry, death, sexuality, and reproduction, the book contends that Sidney Herbert and Sidney Wroth develop their authorship within the simultaneous rigidity and flexibility of their world’s genealogical discourses.
Artistic and Political Patronage in Early Stuart England
Author: Brian O'FarrellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000346315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Artistic and Political Patronage in Early Stuart England explores the remarkable life and career of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke. Pembroke was one of the most influential aristocrats during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I. He was a great patron, a prominent politician and electoral manager, an entrepreneur, and a gifted poet. Yet despite his influence and many talents, Pembroke’s life has been little studied by historians. Drawing on archival material, this book throws new light on Pembroke, and demonstrates just how significant he was during his lifetime. This book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern British history, as well as those interested in politics and patronage during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.