Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-Century Portugal - From Paper to Gold

Explores the works and careers of a group of Renaissance Portuguese poets, and illuminates the ways in which they conceived of themselves and their practice, the systems of patronage within which they worked, and the challenges they faced in the pursuit of publication.

List of contents

• Introduction: What Am I to Do with This Book?


• 1: What Is a Poet?


• 2: What Do Poets Want to Write?


• 3: What Else Do Poets Want? And How Do They Get It?


• 4: Why Print Poetry?


• Afterword: Between a Rock and a High Place


• Appendix 1: A Network Map of Poetic Dedications

About the author

Simon Park is Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Summary

Explores the works and careers of a group of Renaissance Portuguese poets, and illuminates the ways in which they conceived of themselves and their practice, the systems of patronage within which they worked, and the challenges they faced in the pursuit of publication.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Park, Simon (Associate Professor in Medieval and R Park, Simon (Associate Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese Park, Park Simon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2021
• EAN: 9780192896384
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289638-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Portuguese, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets