Author: Herbert G. Wright
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472511042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Professor Wright's objective is to see Boccaccio in relation to the personality of the writers to whom he appealed and simultaneously to observe the changing taste of successive ages as it was revealed by their choice among Bocccaccio's writings. Boccaccio was also a Eurpoean literary phenomenon, and this study attempts to consider his fortunes on the Continent. In considering Chaucer's relation to Boccaccio, the author examines Chaucer's poems afresh, studying the Italian originals closely in order to ascertain the precise nature of the English adaptation or transformation. Various minor figures of English literature are also dealt with at some length due to the importance of Boccaccio's influence on their work.
Boccaccio in England
Author: Herbert G. Wright
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472511042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Professor Wright's objective is to see Boccaccio in relation to the personality of the writers to whom he appealed and simultaneously to observe the changing taste of successive ages as it was revealed by their choice among Bocccaccio's writings. Boccaccio was also a Eurpoean literary phenomenon, and this study attempts to consider his fortunes on the Continent. In considering Chaucer's relation to Boccaccio, the author examines Chaucer's poems afresh, studying the Italian originals closely in order to ascertain the precise nature of the English adaptation or transformation. Various minor figures of English literature are also dealt with at some length due to the importance of Boccaccio's influence on their work.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472511042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Professor Wright's objective is to see Boccaccio in relation to the personality of the writers to whom he appealed and simultaneously to observe the changing taste of successive ages as it was revealed by their choice among Bocccaccio's writings. Boccaccio was also a Eurpoean literary phenomenon, and this study attempts to consider his fortunes on the Continent. In considering Chaucer's relation to Boccaccio, the author examines Chaucer's poems afresh, studying the Italian originals closely in order to ascertain the precise nature of the English adaptation or transformation. Various minor figures of English literature are also dealt with at some length due to the importance of Boccaccio's influence on their work.
Boccacio in England, from Chaucer to Tennyson
Author: Herbert Gladstone Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Minor British Poets, 1789-1918
Author: University of California, Davis. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Minor British Poets, 1789-1918: The early Victorian period, 1840-1869
Author: University of California, Davis. Library
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Literary Reviews in British Periodicals, 1821-1826
Author: William Smith Ward
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
An Index to Microform Collections
Author: Ann Niles
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Meckler Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Meckler Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Catalogues of Sale
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Amusements of Jan Steen
Author: Mariƫt Westermann
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Dutch painter Jan Steen (1626-1679) has long enjoyed a reputation for his dissolute life, redeemed only by a keen eye for the follies of his contemporaries and an exquisite ability to capture his observations in paint. Steen's paintings of unruly households, rambunctious revels, and wily seductresses have come to define our image of the delicious and immoral excesses of the Golden Age. But rather than simply recording the illicit pleasures of Dutch burghers and peasants, Steen transformed them into ambitious genre paintings that rival the peasant epics of Bruegel the Elder and jest with the genteel idylls of Vermeer and Terborch. By placing Steen within Dutch society and culture of the seventeenth century, Mariet Westermann shows how the contradictions and parallels between his life and his art were essential to his innovative achievements. In a detailed analysis of his career and audience, she suggests how Steen became a comic painter and why his pictures appealed to prosperous urban connoisseurs. Documented throughout with seventeenth-century jokes, poems, and plays, The Amusements of Jan Steen gives the first full account of Steen's creative relationship to comic literature and performance.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Dutch painter Jan Steen (1626-1679) has long enjoyed a reputation for his dissolute life, redeemed only by a keen eye for the follies of his contemporaries and an exquisite ability to capture his observations in paint. Steen's paintings of unruly households, rambunctious revels, and wily seductresses have come to define our image of the delicious and immoral excesses of the Golden Age. But rather than simply recording the illicit pleasures of Dutch burghers and peasants, Steen transformed them into ambitious genre paintings that rival the peasant epics of Bruegel the Elder and jest with the genteel idylls of Vermeer and Terborch. By placing Steen within Dutch society and culture of the seventeenth century, Mariet Westermann shows how the contradictions and parallels between his life and his art were essential to his innovative achievements. In a detailed analysis of his career and audience, she suggests how Steen became a comic painter and why his pictures appealed to prosperous urban connoisseurs. Documented throughout with seventeenth-century jokes, poems, and plays, The Amusements of Jan Steen gives the first full account of Steen's creative relationship to comic literature and performance.