Humanism and Poetry in the Early Tudor Period
Author : Harold Andrew Mason
Publisher : Routledge/Thoemms Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Harold Andrew Mason
Publisher : Routledge/Thoemms Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : John Stevens
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : John Thomas Kenny
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Page : 654 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1974
Category : English literature
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
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Author : Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521832700
Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature examines the powerful influence of the biblical Psalms on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. It explores the imaginative, beautiful, ingenious and sometimes ludicrous and improbable ways in which the Psalms were 'translated' from ancient Israel to Renaissance and Reformation England. No biblical book was more often or more diversely translated than the Psalms during the period. In church psalters, sophisticated metrical paraphrases, poetic adaptations, meditations, sermons, commentaries, and through biblical allusions in secular poems, plays, and prose fiction, English men and women interpreted the Psalms, refashioning them according to their own personal, religious, political, or aesthetic agendas. The book focuses on literature from major writers like Shakespeare and Milton to less prominent ones like George Gascoigne, Mary Sidney Herbert and George Wither, but it also explores the adaptations of the Psalms in musical settings, emblems, works of theology and political polemic.
Author : Taylor Cowdery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009223747
This revisionist literary history of early court poetry illuminates late-medieval and early modern theories of literary production.
Author : Jill Kraye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521436243
From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical remains of antiquity, humanism turned into a dynamic cultural programme, influencing almost every facet of Renaissance intellectual life. The fourteen essays in this 1996 volume deal with all aspects of the movement, from language learning to the development of science, from the effect of humanism on biblical study to its influence on art, from its Italian origins to its manifestations in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare. A detailed biographical index, and a guide to further reading, are provided. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe.
Author : Joan Simon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521296793
This book discusses educational developments during a crucial period of English history in their social context, revising a long-standing interpretation of the effect of Reformation legislation. Tracing trends from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, it is in three parts. The first considers the pattern in the later maiddle ages and the conditions favouring the spread of humanist ideas which were to be adapted and applied at the Reformation. In Part II there is a detailed survey of measures takeen under Henry VIII and during the reign of Edward VI when state intervention to control the organisation and curriculum of schools and universities laid the foundations of the modern system of education. Finally, after a review of the relation between educational and social change, the focus is on three main aspects during the conservative Elizabethan age: consolidation of the school system, the pattern devised for the institution of the gentleman; the extension of the popular education fostered by the puritan ethic and the pressure of practical needs - forecasting the next major move for educational reform in the mid-seventeenth century.
Author : Catherine Bates
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0198830696
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 synthesises existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the volumes. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry features a history of the birth moment of modern 'English' poetry in greater detail than previous studies. It examines the literary transitions, institutional contexts, artistic practices, and literary genres within which poets compose their works. Each chapter combines an orientation to its topic and a contribution to the field. Specifically, the volume introduces a narrative about the advent of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser, attending to the events that underwrite the poets' achievements: Humanism; Reformation; monarchism and republicanism; colonization; print and manuscript; theatre; science; and companionate marriage. Featured are metre and form, figuration and allusiveness, and literary career, as well as a wide range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert. Major works discussed include Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Author : Raymond-Jean Frontain
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780911198553
This collection of eleven original essays each by a different scholar outlines the rich body of imaginative and devotional literature which has the biblical poet-warrior-king as its subject or primary focus, showing David to have as strong an imaginative appeal for Western writers as such better-known mythic heroes as Orpheus, Oedipus, Samson, and Ulysses. The introduction to the volume surveys the development of the David myth particularly in British and American literature. The essays represent a variety of critical approaches to the myth as literature, treating in detail such works as Shakespeare's Hamlet, Cowley's Davideis, Christopher Smart's A Song to David, and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and examining the complex uses made of David in the Midrash, Talmud, and Patristic writings; medieval sermons and Reformation devotional treatises; and American Puritan sermons.