Oxford History of Poetry in English - Volume 4. Sixteenth-Century British Poetry

A history of the birth moment of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser that studies a range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1: Catherine Bates and Patrick Cheney: Introduction


• I. Transitions and Contexts


• 2: Seth Lerer: Transitions


• 3: Andrew Hadfield: Social Contexts


• 4: Helen Smith: Professional Contexts


• II. Practices


• 5: Patrick Cheney: Poetics


• 6: Jeff Dolven: Style


• 7: Colin Burrow: Allusiveness


• 8: Hannah Crawforth: Figuration


• 9: Daniel Juan Gil: Career


• III. Forms


• 10: Tome MacFaul: Miscellany


• 11: Joseph Campana and Catherine Bates: Lyric


• 12: Chris Stamatakis: Sonnet


• 13: Michelle O'Callaghan: Satire


• 14: Helen Cooper: Pastoral


• 15: Tamsin Badcoe: Epic


• 16: Daniel Moss: Minor Epic


• 17: Philip Schwyzer: History


• 18: Andrea Brady: Elegy


• 19: Paul D. Stegner: Complaint


• 20: Claire McEachern: Devotional Poetry


• IV. Poets


• 21: Jane Griffiths: Skelton


• 22: Willy Maley and Theo van Heijnsbergen: Scots Poetry


• 23: Cathy Shrank: Wyatt and Surrey


• 24: Danielle Clarke: Mid-Tudor Poetry


• 25: Catherine Bates: Philip Sidney


• 26: Ayesha Ramachandran: Spenser: Shorter Poetry


• 27: Richard McCabe: Spenser: The Faerie Queen


• 28: Katherine Cleland: Daniel, Drayton, Chapman


• 29: Rachel Eisendrath: Marlowe


• 30: Dympna Callaghan: Shakespeare


• 31: Andrew Hiscock: Ralegh


• 32: Gillian Wright: Mary Sidney Herbert


• V. Transitions


• 33: Michael Schoenfeldt: The Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Catherine Bates is Research Professor in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. She was Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, before moving to Warwick in 1995. She specialises in the poetry and poetics of sixteenth-century English poetry, with a focus on lyric, epic, and romance. She has published five monographs on Renaissance literature, including Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser, and On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's 'Defence of Poesy'. She is editor of The Cambridge Companion to The Epic, and A Companion to Renaissance Poetry.

Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, where he specialises in English Renaissance poetry and drama, with a focus on literary authorship. He has published seven monographs on Renaissance literature, including The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, and Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion. He is General Editor of the 14-volume Oxford History of Poetry in English.

Zusammenfassung

A history of the birth moment of modern English poetry from Skelton to Spenser that studies a range of poets, from Wyatt, Surrey, and Isabella Whitney to Ralegh, Drayton, and Mary Herbert.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Catherine (Research Professor Bates
• Mitarbeit: Catherine Bates (Herausgeber), Catherine (Research Professor Bates (Herausgeber), Patrick Cheney (Herausgeber), Patrick (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature Cheney (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780198830696
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883069-6
• Seiten: 682
• Serie: Oxford History of Poetry in English
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600