Melodious Tears
The English Funeral Elegy from Spenser to Milton
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1990
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-811789-6 (ISBN)
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-811789-6 (ISBN)
The funeral elegy is a quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book charts the history of the elegy from the mid-16th century up to the 1630's, examines a series of detailed studies of the works of major elegists, and shows it as a kind of laboratory in which writers could put theories of composition into practice.
The funeral elegy is in some important ways the quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book demonstrates how it developed into a kind of laboratory in which writers could put theories of composition into practice. The hospitality of elegy to different styles and modes together with its primary formal obligation to fit the poem decorously to the subject, gave a special value to ingenuity, to virtuosity. Melodious Tears charts the history of the elegy from the time in the mid-sixteenth century when it was exclusively the province of professional writers, the balladeers and chroniclers, up to the 1630s, by which time the fashion for the vernacular elegy had spread throughout the literate classes. Detailed studies of the works of major elegists, particularly Spenser, Sidney, Donne, and Milton are combined with full examination of the range and variety of elegies generated in response to the deaths of Sidney (1586), Queen Elizabeth I (1603), and Prince Henry (1612). A series of appendices contains texts of a number of elegies which survive only in manuscript.
The funeral elegy is in some important ways the quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book demonstrates how it developed into a kind of laboratory in which writers could put theories of composition into practice. The hospitality of elegy to different styles and modes together with its primary formal obligation to fit the poem decorously to the subject, gave a special value to ingenuity, to virtuosity. Melodious Tears charts the history of the elegy from the time in the mid-sixteenth century when it was exclusively the province of professional writers, the balladeers and chroniclers, up to the 1630s, by which time the fashion for the vernacular elegy had spread throughout the literate classes. Detailed studies of the works of major elegists, particularly Spenser, Sidney, Donne, and Milton are combined with full examination of the range and variety of elegies generated in response to the deaths of Sidney (1586), Queen Elizabeth I (1603), and Prince Henry (1612). A series of appendices contains texts of a number of elegies which survive only in manuscript.
The English tradition of elegy; the elegies of Spenser and Sidney; elegies on Sidney (1586) and on Queen Elizabeth (1603); Donne's funeral and anniversary poems; elegies on the death of Prince Henry; Jonson to Milton - elegies 1603-1638.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.8.1990 |
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Reihe/Serie | Oxford English Monographs |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 144 x 223 mm |
Gewicht | 1 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-811789-2 / 0198117892 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-811789-6 / 9780198117896 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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