Patrick Cheney

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. * Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres * Poems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution * Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare * Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare's major poems - Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint- in the context of his dramatic career * Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444396546
• Artikelnr.: 38309282

Autorenporträt

Patrick Cheney is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. He is the author of books on Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Spenser, most recently Shakespeare's Literary Authorship (2008) and Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime (2009). He has also edited Cambridge Companions to Marlowe and Shakespeare's Poetry, co-edited Oxford Companions to early modern English poetry and drama, and co-edited an Oxford edition of Marlowe's poems. Currently, he serves as a General Editor of The Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
The Pleasures and Uses of Sixteenth-Century Poetry
Part I 1500-1558. Reading Early Tudor Poetry: Henrician, Edwardian, Marian
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1 Voice 21
The Poetic Style of Character: Plain and Eloquent Speaking
2 Perception 43
The Crisis of the Reformation, or, What the Poet Sees: Self, Beloved, God
3 World 66
The Poet's Ecology of Place: Sky, Sea, Soil
4 Form 90
The Idea of a Poem: Elegy, Pastoral, Sonnet, Satire, Epic
5 Career 115
The Role of the Poet in Society: Skelton, Wyatt, and Surrey
Part II 1558-1600. Reading Elizabethan Poetry 139
6 Voice 141
The Poetic Style of Character: From Plain Eloquence to the Metaphysical
Sublime
7 Perception 163
What the Poet Sees, and the Advent of Modern Personage: Desire, Idolatry,
Transport, Partnership
8 World 185
The Poet's Ecology of Place: Cosmos, Colony, Country
9 Form 208
Fictions of Poetic Kind: Pastoral, Sonnet, Epic, Minor Epic, Hymn
10 Career 231
The Role of the Poet in Society: Whitney, Spenser, and Marlowe
Part III A Special Case 255
11 Shakespeare: Voice, Perception, World, Form, Career 257
Conclusion 280
Retrospective Poetry: Donne and the End of Sixteenth-Century Poetry
Bibliography 288
Index 323

Rezensionen

"Highly useful in addressing the formal and generic concerns of sixteenth-century poets, and thus in demonstrating close reading, Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry fails to address the equally important political and theoretical period discourses or the methodologies needed to address them. The unbalanced infatuation with authorial vocation and authorial perspectives thus limits the usefulness of the text. Cheney's companion text may thus represent a more widespread return to traditional author-centered interpretive theories and a
turn away from poststructural approaches." (Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 1 December 2012) "Cheney's eye for such intertextual allusion transforms what could have been a series of isolated close readings into a delicately unified exposition of a century's worth of literary dialogue." (Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 2011)

"A carefully selected bibliography that focuses on background sources as well as on primary works and significant critical material is a valuable supplement to the author's consideration of the poetry. Cheney develops his thesis clearly and makes an important contribution to Renaissance scholarship. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 October 2011)