Poetry and the Realm of Politics - Shakespeare to Dryden

Zusatztext a brief summary can give little sense of the subtlety, intricacy, and resourcefulness of Professor Erskine-Hill's account of particular works, of the eloquence and scrupulousness of his writing, or of the learning and intellectual seriousness which is evident on every page of this distinguished and important book ... this is a book which no one seriously interested in the literature or politics of seventeenth-century England can afford to ignore ... its author's commitment to historical contextualization is inseparable from his passionate concern with the imaginative richness and artistic value of the works which are his subject. Klappentext This is a major study of the relation between poetry and politics in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century English literature, focusing in particular on the works of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, and Dryden. Taking issue with the traditional concept of the political poem and with recent New Historicist criticism, Howard Erskine-Hill argues that the major tradition of political allusion is not, as has often been argued, that of the political allegory of Dryden'sAbsolom and Architophel and other overtly political poems, but rather a more shifting and less systematic practice, often involving equivocal or multiple reference. Zusammenfassung Taking issue with the traditional concept of the political poem, this treatise identifies the major tradition of political allusion not in overtly political poems, but rather as a shifting and less systematic presence found in some of the most powerful poems of the 16th and 17th centuries.

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• Authors: Howard Erskine-Hill, Howard (Professor of Literary Histor Erskine-Hill, Howard (Professor of Literary History Erskine-Hill, Erskine-Hill Howard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.1996
• EAN: 9780198117315
• ISBN: 978-0-19-811731-5
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Lyrik, Poesie, English, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, 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