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Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic
By (Author) Clark Hulse
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
1st July 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
821.0309
Paperback
312
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
To Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and other Elizabethans, the minor epic was an important medium for poetic experimentation, but today, too often separated from the culture that bore it, it is not well understood. This author examines the form of the minor epic and its place in Elizabethan literary culture. Particularly, he explores the concept of