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Author : R. D. Perry
Release : 2020
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 679/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Charles D'Orléans' English Aesthetic by : R. D. Perry
Download or read book Charles D'Orléans' English Aesthetic written by R. D. Perry. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New investigations into Charles d'Orléans' under-rated poem, its properties and its qualities.
Author : Daniel Sawyer
Release : 2024-05-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How to Read Middle English Poetry by : Daniel Sawyer
Download or read book How to Read Middle English Poetry written by Daniel Sawyer. This book was released on 2024-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from the choice of single words, through syntax, metre, rhyme, and stanza-design, up to the play of larger forms across whole poems. How to Read Middle English Poetry covers major figures?such as Chaucer, Langland, the Pearl Poet, and Robert Henryson?but also delves into exciting anonymous lyrics, romances, and drama. It shows, too, how some modern poets have drawn on earlier poems, and how Middle English and early Scots provide crucial standpoints from which to think through present-day writing. Contextual sections discuss how poetry was heard aloud, introduce manuscripts and editing, and lay out Middle English poetry's ties to other tongues, including French, Welsh, and Latin. Critical terms are highlighted and explained both in the main text and in a full indexed glossary, while the uses of key tools such as the Middle English Dictionary are described and modeled. References to accessible editions and electronic resources mean that the book needs no accompanying anthology. At once thorough, wide-ranging, and practical, How to Read Middle English Poetry is indispensable for students exploring Middle English or early Scots, and for anyone curious about the heart of poetry's history.
Author : Julia Boffey
Release : 2023-05-18
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Book Rating : 685/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of Poetry in English by : Julia Boffey
Download or read book The Oxford History of Poetry in English written by Julia Boffey. This book was released on 2023-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume explores the developing range of English verse in the century after the death of Chaucer in 1400, years that saw both change and consolidation in traditions of poetic writing in English in the regions of Britain. Chaucer himself was an important shaping presence in the poetry of this period, providing a stimulus to imitation and to creative expansion of the modes he had favoured. In addition to assessing his role, this volume considers a range of literary factors significant to the poetry of the century, including verse forms, literary language, translation, and the idea of the author. It also signals features of the century's history that were important for the production of English verse: responses to wars at home and abroad, dynastic uncertainty, and movements towards religious reform, as well as technological innovations such as the introduction of printing, which brought influential changes to the transmission and reception of verse writing. The volume is shaped to include chapters on the contexts and forms of poetry in English, on the important genres of verse produced in the period, on some of the fifteenth-century's major writers (Lydgate, Hoccleve, Dunbar, and Henryson), and a consideration of the influence of the verse of this century on what was to follow.
Author : Daniel Davies
Release : 2024-04-16
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 163/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Literatures of the Hundred Years War by : Daniel Davies
Download or read book Literatures of the Hundred Years War written by Daniel Davies. This book was released on 2024-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to reveal the transnational literary consequences of over a century of international conflict. While traditionally seen as an Anglo-French conflict, the Hundred Years War was a multilateral conflict with connections across the continent through alliances and proxy battles. Writers, whether as witnesses, diplomats, or provocateurs, played key roles in shaping the conflict, and the conflict equally impacted the course of literary history. The volume shows how a wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses to the war, from women’s visionary writing by figures like Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Author : Benjamin A. Saltzman
Release : 2022-10-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 964/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thinking of the Middle Ages by : Benjamin A. Saltzman
Download or read book Thinking of the Middle Ages written by Benjamin A. Saltzman. This book was released on 2022-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how mid-twentieth-century intellectuals' engagement with the Middle Ages shaped politics, art, and history.
