Cheney Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9654-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings ofindividual poems with a critical consideration of the historicalcontext in which they were written. Informative and original, thisbook has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand,enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry.
* Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems,canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print andmanuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres
* Poems read within their historical context, with reference tofive major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, theReformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, andthe scientific revolution
* Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, IsabellaWhitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary SidneyHerbert, Donne, and Shakespeare
* Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare'smajor poems - Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece,'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A Lover'sComplaint- in the context of his dramatic career
* Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato,Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, PercyBysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and HelenVendler

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheney, Patrick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
The Pleasures and Uses of Sixteenth-Century Poetry.
Part I 1500-1558. Reading Early Tudor Poetry:Henrician, Edwardian, Marian.
1 Voice.
The Poetic Style of Character: Plain and EloquentSpeaking.
2 Perception.
The Crisis of the Reformation, or, What the Poet Sees: Self,Beloved, God.
3 World.
The Poet's Ecology of Place: Sky, Sea, Soil.
4 Form.
The Idea of a Poem: Elegy, Pastoral, Sonnet, Satire,Epic.
5 Career.
The Role of the Poet in Society: Skelton, Wyatt, andSurrey.
Part II 1558-1600. Reading ElizabethanPoetry.
6 Voice.
The Poetic Style of Character: From Plain Eloquence to theMetaphysical Sublime.
7 Perception.
What the Poet Sees, and the Advent of Modern Personage:Desire, Idolatry, Transport, Partnership.
8 World.
The Poet's Ecology of Place: Cosmos, Colony,Country.
9 Form.
Fictions of Poetic Kind: Pastoral, Sonnet, Epic, Minor Epic,Hymn.
10 Career.
The Role of the Poet in Society: Whitney, Spenser, andMarlowe.
Part III A Special Case.
11 Shakespeare: Voice, Perception, World, Form,Career.
Conclusion.
Retrospective Poetry: Donne and the End of Sixteenth-CenturyPoetry.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Cheney is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. He is the author of books on Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser, most recently Shakespeare's Literary Authorship (2008) and Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime (2009). He has also edited Cambridge Companions to Marlowe and Shakespeare's Poetry, co-edited Oxford Companions to early modern English poetry and drama, and co-edited an Oxford edition of Marlowe's poems. Currently, he serves as a General Editor of The Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.