Isabel Rivers

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It:

• provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance;
• illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas;
• contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them;
• includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134844166
• Artikelnr.: 47888248

Autorenporträt

Dr Isabel Rivers is a Fellow and Tutor in English of St Hugh's College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the First Edition Introduction: Renaissance Poetry and Modern
Readers 1 The Golden Age and the Garden of Eden 2 The Pagan Gods 3
Platonism and Neoplatonism 4 Stoicism 5 Views of History 6 Cosmology 7
Reformation and Counter-Reformation 8 Protestant Theology 9 Humanism 10
Biblical Exegesis and Typology 11 Theories of Poetry 12 Allegory 13
Numerology

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Preface to the First Edition Introduction: Renaissance Poetry and Modern Readers 1 The Golden Age and the Garden of Eden 2 The Pagan Gods 3 Platonism and Neoplatonism 4 Stoicism 5 Views of History 6 Cosmology 7 Reformation and Counter-Reformation 8 Protestant Theology 9 Humanism 10 Biblical Exegesis and Typology 11 Theories of Poetry 12 Allegory 13 Numerology