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The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne: A History of the Plain and Eloquent Styles
By (Author) Douglas L. Peterson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th February 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
808
Paperback
400
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
The author rejects C.S. Lewis's theory of a "Drab" and a "Golden" school as unhistorical, and establishes the presence of an eloquent or courtly tradition and of a plain or contemplative tradition. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print