A companion to Renaissance poetry

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Author:

Bates, Catherine, 1964- editor.

ISBN:

9781118585122

9781118585184

9781118585153

9781118585191

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 653 pages)

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 2287

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 2287.

Contents:

Contexts -- Transitions and Translations -- The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry -- Translation and Translations -- Early Developments, Foreign Foundations -- Genre and Form -- Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty -- Echo Repetita -- Untimely Love or "Spare the Buds" -- Religions and Reformations -- Poetry and Sacrament in the English Renaissance -- Incarnation, Sacrament, Controversy -- Poetic Text/Eucharistic Context -- William Alabaster's "The Sponge" -- Robert Southwell's "Christs Bloody Sweate" -- "The Altar" -- "A sweetness ready penn'd"?: English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era -- Marking and Contesting Confessionalism -- Measuring the Bible -- Imagining Community -- Penning Love -- Authorships and Authorities -- Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission -- Occasional Verse and Manuscript Transmission -- Tudor and Early Stuart Poets and Manuscript Circulation -- Coda -- Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print -- Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution -- Female Authorship -- Authorship Studies -- The Problems of Female Authorship -- (Mis)reading Hester Pulter -- Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the "Religious Poet" -- Defenses and Definitions -- Theories and Philosophies of Poetry --

Truth -- Function -- Form -- Tudor Verse Form: Rudeness, Artifice, and Display -- The Progress of Poesy: Rudeness and the Motives of Decorum -- The Practical Inheritance -- Quantitative Metrics and the Cultivation of the Line -- Puttenham, Print, and the Strophe -- Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form -- Practice and Theory -- A Taxonomy of Terms -- A Model of Genre -- Renaissance Genre Theory -- Renaissance Fictions of Genre -- Printing Genre -- Forms and Genres -- Epic and Epyllion -- Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene -- Paradise Lost: Experimental and Unorthodox Sacred Epic -- Choosing a Subject -- Visionary Epic -- Unorthodox Theological Epic -- Material Cosmos -- Human Sexuality and Gender Relations -- Domestic Relations and Tragedy -- Politics, Tyranny, and Dissent -- Forms of Creativity in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder -- The Epyllion -- Lyric -- Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses: The Sonnet Tradition from Wyatt to Milton -- Wyatt and Surrey: Songs and Sonnets -- Little Sounds and Little Rooms -- Verse Form and Memory -- Broken Pillars and Void Spaces -- Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser -- "I am lunaticke": Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, and the Evolution of the Lyric -- Art and History Then: Reading Shakespeare's Sonnet 146 --

Metapoetry and the Subject of the Poem in Donne and Marvell -- Jonson and the Cavalier Poets -- Complaint and Elegy -- Complaint -- Medieval and Tudor Origins -- Erotic Complaint in the 1590s and Beyond -- Religious and Political Complaint -- Funeral Elegy -- Epistolary and Dialogic Forms -- Letters of Address, Letters of Exchange -- Answer Poetry and Other Verse "Conversations" -- Satire, Pastoral, and Popular Poetry -- Verse Satire -- Satire, Satyrs, and Satura -- Anti-Court Satire and Verse Libels -- Satiric Communities -- Writing Men and Writing Women -- Proper Work, Willing Waste: Pastoral and the English Poet -- "Well to endyte": Barclay and the Labor of Writing -- "Worthy ... travaile": Fleming and the Value of Difficulty -- "O carefull verse": Spenser, Sidney, and the Making of the English Poet -- Digging into "Veritable Dunghills": Re-appreciating Renaissance Broadside Ballads -- Kinds of the Popular: Broadside Ballads versus Traditional Oral Ballads -- Tripping on Meter: Ballad Measure -- Multi-media Artifacts: Text, Tune, Image, Dance -- A Protean Form: Moving Parts and Shifting Aesthetics -- Broadside Ballad Heyday Subjects: A Smorgasbord -- Religious Poetry -- Female Piety and Religious Poetry -- Psalms and Mary Sidney Herbert -- Interpretative Biblical Poetry -- Devotional Female Community and Poetry -- Materiality and Circulation -- The Psalms.

Donne and Herbert -- Poetry and Religion -- God and the Soul -- Then and Now -- References -- Positions and Debates -- Archipelagic Identities -- Archipelagic Entrances -- Archipelagic Spenser -- Archipelagic Arthur -- Chorography, Map-Mindedness, Poetics of Place -- Masculinity -- Queer Studies -- Sensation, Passion, and Emotion -- The Body in Renaissance Poetry -- Poetry and the Material Text -- Science and Technology -- The Astronomer in the Ditch: Science versus Poetry -- "Reasons rend": Poetry and the Causes of Things -- "Written darkly": Poetry and the Secrets of Nature -- Poetry and the New Science -- Poetry as Technê -- Economic Criticism -- Breaking into Print: From Tottel to Spenser -- Stages to Pages: Poet-Dramatists from Marlowe to Jonson -- Poet-Churchmen: From Donne to Herrick -- The Age of Milton -- New Historicism, New Formalism, and Thy Darling in an Urn -- Allegory -- Conceptions of Allegory -- Allegorism in Renaissance Poetics -- Sidney -- Spenser -- Milton -- The Sublime -- Defining the Sublime -- Transmitting the Sublime -- Englishing the Sublime -- The English Renaissance Sublime -- EULA.

Abstract:

"The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market. Covering the period 1520-1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animating the discipline. A Companion to Renaissance Poetry analyzes the historical, cultural, political, and religious background of the time, addressing issues such as education, translation, the Reformation, theorizations of poetry, and more. The book immerses readers in non-dramatic poetry from Wyatt to Milton, focusing on the key poetic genres--epic, lyric, complaint, elegy, epistle, pastoral, satire, and religious poetry. It also offers an inclusive account of the poetic production of the period by canonical and less canonical writers, female and male. Finally, it offers examples of current developments in the interpretation of Renaissance poetry, including economic, ecological, scientific, materialist, and formalist approaches. • Covers a wide selection of authors and texts • Features contributions from notable authors, scholars, and critics across the globe • Offers a substantial section on recent and developing approaches to reading Renaissance poetry A Companion to Renaissance Poetry is an ideal resource for all students and scholars of the literature and culture of the Renaissance period."--EBSCO.

Local Note:

John Wiley and Sons

Subject Term:

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.

Renaissance -- England.

Electronic books.

Renaissance -- Angleterre.

Poésie anglaise -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique.

Livres numériques.

e-books.

POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

English.