Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play
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Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play
By (Author) Lynn Enterline
Series edited by Professor Lena Cowen Orlin
Series edited by Ann Thompson
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Arden Shakespeare
11th July 2019
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: poetry and poets
821.309
Physical Properties
Hardback
272
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
399g
Description
Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this literary conversation and contribute for the current, vigorous reassessment of humanism's intended consequences by drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy and vernacular poetic invention. Key themes and topics include: -Epyllia, masculinity and sexuality -Classicism and commerce -Genre and mimesis -Rhetoric and aesthetics
Reviews
These essays contribute fascinating insights to the ongoing reassessment of humanism during Shakespeare's time. * Times Literary Supplement *
Offers fresh insights and varied methodologies into a seldom trodden literary area. * Cahiers Elisabthains *
Author Bio
Lynn Enterline is Nancy Perot Mulford Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is author of The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare and The Tears of Narcissus: Melancholia and Masculinity in Early Modern Writing.
