Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare''s Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Michael Schoenfeldt is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton and Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship, and he has contributed to publications including A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets and Imagining Death in Shakespeare and Milton. Klappentext An approachable and engaging guide to Shakespeare's poetry, this volume provides students with ways to understand and appreciate the poems. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive guide to the pleasures and challenges of reading Shakespeare's poetry! this volume outlines the poems' complexity while making them accessible. Emphasizing the whole poetic corpus! not just the Sonnets! it addresses the many approaches and contexts available for reading the poems! and includes exemplary readings of individual poems. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Shakespeare and English poetry; 2. Shakespeare's banquet of sense: 'Venus and Adonis'; 3. 'My tongue shall utter all': constraint and complaint in 'Lucrece'; 4. Mysteries of the Sonnets; 5. 'All in war with time': progeny, poetry, and entropy in the Sonnets; 6. Friendship and love, darkness and lust: desire in the Sonnets; 7. Solitary and mutual flames: 'A Lover's Complaint' and 'The Phoenix and the Turtle'; 8. Passionate pilgrims: fantasies of Shakespearean authorship; Further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Schoenfeldt, Michael (University of Michigan Schoenfeldt, Michael Carl Schoenfeldt, Schoenfeldt Michael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521879415
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87941-5
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean