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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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118584903 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 01/24/2018 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 680 |
File size: | 9 MB |
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ixPreface xvii
Acknowledgments xx
Part I Contexts 1
Transitions and Translations 3
1 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry 3Seth Lerer
2 Translation and Translations 16A. E. B. Coldiron
3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty 31Lynn Enterline
Religions and Reformations 50
4 Poetry and Sacrament in the English Renaissance 50Gary Kuchar
5 “A sweetness ready penn’d”?: English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era 63Susannah Brietz Monta
Authorships and Authorities 78
6 Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission 78Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti
7 Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print 103Jonathan Gibson
8 Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution 115Stephen B. Dobranski
9 Female Authorship 128Wendy Wall
10 Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the “Religious Poet” 141Jonathan Crewe
Defenses and Definitions 154
11 Theories and Philosophies of Poetry 154Robert Matz
12 Tudor Verse Form: Rudeness, Artifice, and Display 166Joseph Loewenstein
13 Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form 183Patrick Cheney
Part II Forms and Genres 199
Epic and Epyllion 201
14 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 201Gordon Teskey
15 Paradise Lost: Experimental and Unorthodox Sacred Epic 214David Loewenstein
16 Forms of Creativity in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder 227Shannon Miller
17 The Epyllion 239Jim Ellis
Lyric 250
18 Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses: The Sonnet Tradition from Wyatt to Milton 250Gordon Braden
19 Wyatt and Surrey: Songs and Sonnets 262Chris Stamatakis
20 Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser 276Catherine Bates
21 “I am lunaticke”: Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, and the Evolution of the Lyric 289Danijela Kambaskovic-Schwartz
22 Art and History Then: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146 303Christopher Warley
23 Metapoetry and the Subject of the Poem in Donne and Marvell 314Barbara Correll
24 Jonson and the Cavalier Poets 325Syrithe Pugh
Complaint and Elegy 339
25 Complaint 339Rosalind Smith, Michelle O’Callaghan, and Sarah C. E. Ross
26 Funeral Elegy 353Andrea Brady
Epistolary and Dialogic Forms 365
27 Letters of Address, Letters of Exchange 365M. L. Stapleton
28 Answer Poetry and Other Verse “Conversations” 376Cathy Shrank
Satire, Pastoral, and Popular Poetry 389
29 Verse Satire 389Michelle O’Callaghan
30 Proper Work, Willing Waste: Pastoral and the English Poet 401Catherine Nicholson
31 Digging into “Veritable Dunghills”: Re-appreciating
Renaissance Broadside Ballads 414Patricia Fumerton
Religious Poetry 432
32 Female Piety and Religious Poetry 432Femke Molekamp
33 The Psalms 446Hannibal Hamlin
34 Donne and Herbert 459Helen Wilcox
Part III Positions and Debates 471
35 Archipelagic Identities 473Willy Maley
36 Chorography, Map-Mindedness, Poetics of Place 485Andrew Hadfield
37 Masculinity 498Joseph Campana
38 Queer Studies 510Stephen Guy-Bray
39 Sensation, Passion, and Emotion 519Douglas Trevor
40 The Body in Renaissance Poetry 531Michael Schoenfeldt
41 Poetry and the Material Text 545Adam Smyth
42 Science and Technology 557Jessica Wolfe
43 Economic Criticism 570William J. Kennedy
44 New Historicism, New Formalism, and Thy Darling in an Urn 583Richard Strier
45 Allegory 595Kenneth Borris
46 The Sublime 611Patrick Cheney
Index 628