Author: James H. PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Making the Miscellany
Author: Megan HeffernanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252802
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Heffernan's focus is not only the material organization of printed poetry, but also how those conventions and innovations of arrangement contributed to vernacular poetic craft, the consolidation of ideals of individual authorship, and centuries of literary history. The arrangement of printed compilations contains a largely unstudied and undertheorized archive of poetic form, Heffernan argues. In an evolving system of textual transmission, compilers were experimenting with how to contain individual poems within larger volumes. By paying attention to how they navigated and shaped the exchanges between poems and their organization, she reveals how we can witness the basic power of imaginative writing over the material text. Making the Miscellany is also a study of how this history of textual design has been differently told by the distinct disciplines of bibliography or book history and literary studies, each of which has handled—and obscured—the formal qualities of early modern poetry compilations and the practices that produced them. Revisiting these editorial and critical approaches, this book recovers a moment when compilers, poets, and readers were alert to a poetics of organization that exceeded the limits of the individual poem.
A Celtic Miscellany
Author: Kenneth JacksonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141935235
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force. Skifully arranged by theme, from the hero-tales of Cú Chulainn, Bardic poetry and elegies, to the sensitive and intimate writings of early Celtic Christianity, this anthology provides a fascinating insight into a deeply creative literary tradition.
Gifts of Genius: A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry
Author: William Cullen BryantPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382323311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Gifts of Genius: A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"Gifts of Genius: A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Esten Cooke, Bayard Taylor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, George William Curtis, Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Osgood, Thomas Buchanan Read, George P. Marsh, Henry W. Bellows, Roswell D. Hitchcock, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, William Allen Butler, Alice B. Haven, George S. Hillard, William H. Burleigh, Edward S. Gould, Francis Williams, Caroline M. Kirkland. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
Author: John DrydenThe Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose
Author: Alexander PopeThe Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose. With a Selection of Explanatory Notes, and the Account of His Life by Dr. Johnson. In Eight Volumes. Vol. 1. \8.!
Author: Songes and Sonettes
Author: Richard TottelTottel's Miscellany
Author: Amanda HoltonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014193378X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first printed in the volume. Wyatt's intimate poem about lost love which begins 'They flee from me, that sometime did me seke', and Surrey's passionate sonnet 'Complaint of a lover rebuked' are joined in the miscellany by a large collection of diverse, intriguingly anonymous poems both moral and erotic, intimate and universal.
The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age
Author: Jonathan David BradburyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317023927
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the service performed by the miscellanists as disseminators of knowledge and information to a popular readership. His comprehensive analysis of the miscelánea corrects long-standing misconceptions, starting from its poorly-understood terminology, and erects divisions between it and other related genres. His work illuminates the relationship between the Golden Age Spanish miscellany and those of the classical world and humanist milieu, and illustrates how the vernacular tradition moved away from these forebears. Bradbury examines in particular the later inclusion of explicitly fictional components, such as poetic compositions and short prose fiction, alongside the vulgarisation of erudite or inaccessible prose material, which was the primary function of the earlier Spanish miscellanies. He tackles the flexibility of the miscelánea as a genre by assessing the conceptual, thematic and formal aspects of such works, and exploring the interaction of these features. As a result, a genre model emerges, through which Golden Age works with fragmentary and non-continuous contents can better be interpreted and classified.