Fetters of Rhyme - Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England

Zusatztext "This is a compelling read; Rush draws on a plethora of contemporary poetic handbooks, writers’ remarks in letters and poems about their own choices of poetic form and her own superbly microscopic close readings. . . . A subtle, thoughtful and well-supported account of the ideological implications of poetic form." ---Peter J. Smith, Times Higher Education Zusammenfassung How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetryIn his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme, portraying himself as a revolutionary freeing English verse from "the troublesome and modern bondage of Riming." Despite his claim to be a pioneer, M

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• Authors: Rebecca M. Rush
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780691212555
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21255-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets