An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems

An Introduction to Shakespeare''s Poems provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare''s non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece ; the Sonnets ; and various minor poems, including some only recently attributed to Shakespeare. Peter Hyland locates Shakespeare as a sceptical voice within the turbulent social context in which Elizabethan professional poets had to work, and relates his poems to the tastes, values and political pressures of his time. Hyland also explores how Shakespeare''s poetry can be of interest to twenty-first century readers.>

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Shakespeare becomes a Poet
Shakespeare and the Literary Marketplace
The Art of Poetry
Shakespeare and Ovidian Poetry
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
Shakespeare nd the Elizabethan Sonnet
Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets : 1
Reading Shakespeare'sSonnets : 2
Various Poems
Conclusion
Notes
Suggested Reading
Index.

About the author

PETER HYLAND is currently Professor of English at Huron College, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hyland
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2002
• EAN: 9780333725931
• ISBN: 978-0-333-72593-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; B, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, poem;poet;poetry