Brian Vickers

English Renaissance Literary Criticism

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive collection of English Renaissance literary criticism to appear for nearly a century. Brian Vickers has brought together a wide-ranging selection of texts, some well-known (such as Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry, the most brilliant critical essay of the whole Renaissance, here given complete), some little-known (Dudley North's account of Metaphysical poetry), and one being printed for the first time (John Ford's elegy on John Fletcher).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 158mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 989g
• ISBN-13: 9780198186793
• ISBN-10: 0198186797
• Artikelnr.: 21388270

Autorenporträt

Brian Vickers is Chair of English Language and Literature, ETH Zürich

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Texts
1: Sir Thomas Elyot
2: Henry Howard
3: Thomas Wilson
4: Alexander Neville
5: William Baldwin
6: Roger Ascham
7: George Gascoigne
8: George Whetstone
9: Edmund Spenser and E.K.
10: George Puttenham
11: Edmund Spenser
12: Sir John Harrington
13: William Shakespeare
14: Gabriel Harvey
15: Sir Philip Sidney
16: George Chapman
17: Robert Southwell
18: John Hoskyns
19: Thomas Campion
20: Samuel Daniel
21: Ben Jonson, Rhymes against rhyme
22: Francis Bacon
23: Ben Jonson, The moral function of poetry
24: Thomas Heywood
25: John Fletcher
26: Dudley North
27: George Chapman
28: Ben Jonson, The faults of contemporary drama
29: William Drummond
30: Ben Jonson, A tribute to Shakespeare
31: John Ford
32: Philip Massinger
33: Thomas Carew
34: Ben Jonson, Notes on literature
35: John Milton
36: Thomas Hobbes
Glossary
List of Rhetorical Figures
Index