Model of Poesy

Informationen zum Autor Gavin Alexander is a University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. His publications include Writing after Sidney: The Literary Response to Sir Philip Sidney, 1586–1640 (2006), Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism (2004), a co-edited volume, Renaissance Figures of Speech (2007), and numerous articles and book chapters on literary and musicological topics. He teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level across a wide range of topics, from ancient to modern literature, with a particular emphasis on Renaissance literature, the history and theory of literary criticism, and textual studies. His online Renaissance palaeography course 'English Handwriting' is widely used around the world. In 2008 he was awarded a Pilkington Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext Shakespeare's first critic: a newly discovered work of literary criticism from the 1590s, the most revolutionary decade in English literary history. Zusammenfassung This recently discovered treatise on poetics from 1599! the end of the most revolutionary decade in English literary history! includes discussions of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Gavin Alexander's groundbreaking edition! with introduction and commentary! makes William Scott's powerful work newly available to students and scholars of English Renaissance literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: William Scott (c.1571-c.1617); The Model in context; Form and method; Textual introduction; The Model of Poesy; Commentary; Appendices: Appendix 1. The dedication to Scott's Du Bartas; Appendix 2. Scott's letter to Cecil; Appendix 3. Scott's will.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Alexander, William Scott
• Assisted by: Gavin Alexander (Editor), Alexander Gavin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2013
• EAN: 9780521196116
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19611-6
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary reference works, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600