Author: William Winstanley
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Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Or the Honour of Parnassus in a Brief Essay of the Works and Writings of Above Two Hundred of Them from the Time of K. William the Conqueror to the Reign of King James II.
Author: William Winstanley
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Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Pages : 254
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Petrarch's English Laurels, 1475–1700
Author: Jackson Campbell Boswell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351911627
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The powerful influence of Petrarch on the development of Renaissance vernacular poetry has long been recognized as one of the major factors in early modern cultural history; this work provides a far more comprehensive catalogue of the direct evidence for that influence in England than any yet available. Following the model of Boswell's Dante's Fame in England (1999), it offers an itemized presentation, year by year, of printed citations, translations, and allusions, with complete bibliographical information, quotations of the relevant passages, and brief commentary. The most fully studied aspect of Petrarch's influence, his love poetry as a model for imitation, remains paramount: a model by turns slavishly imitated, ruthlessly mocked, and searchingly reworked, sometimes all at the same time. But the significance of other aspects of his legacy are also documented, with new fullness: notably his Latin prose works-especially his encyclopedic moral treatise On the Remedies of Both Kinds of Fortune, popular throughout the period-and his polemics against the Avignon papacy, which earned him a strong reputation in England as an angry moral prophet and champion of what would become the Protestant cause. The picture here presented provides new texture and complexity for any further discussion of Petrarch in the English Renaissance.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351911627
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The powerful influence of Petrarch on the development of Renaissance vernacular poetry has long been recognized as one of the major factors in early modern cultural history; this work provides a far more comprehensive catalogue of the direct evidence for that influence in England than any yet available. Following the model of Boswell's Dante's Fame in England (1999), it offers an itemized presentation, year by year, of printed citations, translations, and allusions, with complete bibliographical information, quotations of the relevant passages, and brief commentary. The most fully studied aspect of Petrarch's influence, his love poetry as a model for imitation, remains paramount: a model by turns slavishly imitated, ruthlessly mocked, and searchingly reworked, sometimes all at the same time. But the significance of other aspects of his legacy are also documented, with new fullness: notably his Latin prose works-especially his encyclopedic moral treatise On the Remedies of Both Kinds of Fortune, popular throughout the period-and his polemics against the Avignon papacy, which earned him a strong reputation in England as an angry moral prophet and champion of what would become the Protestant cause. The picture here presented provides new texture and complexity for any further discussion of Petrarch in the English Renaissance.
A Bibliography of Dr. John Donne
Author: Geoffrey Keynes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107624061
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
First published in 1958, this third edition supplies a detailed bibliography of the poet and cleric John Donne.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107624061
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
First published in 1958, this third edition supplies a detailed bibliography of the poet and cleric John Donne.
Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the library of ... Richard Heber, which will be sold by auction, by messrs. Sotheby and son [and others] Apr. 10, 1834 [&c.]. [2 other copies. Pt.1-12 with MS. prices, pt.1-11 also with the cost to the owner. In the 2nd set, pt.11 is marked with all purchasers, and pt.1,2 with a few purchasers. In the 1st set, pt.1 has a statistical table analysing the series of sales].
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Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Pages : 362
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Printing the Middle Ages
Author: Sian Echard
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201841
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she argues, was a vast terrain of books, scholarly or popular, grubby or beautiful, widely disseminated or privately printed. By turning to these, we are able to chart the differing reception histories of the literary texts of the British Middle Ages. For Echard, any reading of a medieval text, whether past or present, amateur or academic, floats on the surface of a complex sea of expectations and desires made up of the books that mediate those readings. Each chapter of Printing the Middle Ages focuses on a central textual object and tells its story in order to reveal the history of its reception and transmission. Moving from the first age of print into the early twenty-first century, Echard examines the special fonts created in the Elizabethan period to reproduce Old English, the hand-drawn facsimiles of the nineteenth century, and today's experiments with the digital reproduction of medieval objects; she explores the illustrations in eighteenth-century versions of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton; she discusses nineteenth-century children's versions of the Canterbury Tales and the aristocratic transmission history of John Gower's Confessio Amantis; and she touches on fine press printings of Dante, Froissart, and Langland.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201841
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she argues, was a vast terrain of books, scholarly or popular, grubby or beautiful, widely disseminated or privately printed. By turning to these, we are able to chart the differing reception histories of the literary texts of the British Middle Ages. For Echard, any reading of a medieval text, whether past or present, amateur or academic, floats on the surface of a complex sea of expectations and desires made up of the books that mediate those readings. Each chapter of Printing the Middle Ages focuses on a central textual object and tells its story in order to reveal the history of its reception and transmission. Moving from the first age of print into the early twenty-first century, Echard examines the special fonts created in the Elizabethan period to reproduce Old English, the hand-drawn facsimiles of the nineteenth century, and today's experiments with the digital reproduction of medieval objects; she explores the illustrations in eighteenth-century versions of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton; she discusses nineteenth-century children's versions of the Canterbury Tales and the aristocratic transmission history of John Gower's Confessio Amantis; and she touches on fine press printings of Dante, Froissart, and Langland.
The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern
Author: Alan Stewart
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191507008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing. The challenges wrought by the upheavals and the sixteenth-century English Reformation and seventeenth-century Civil Wars moulded British and early American life-writing in unique and lasting ways. While classical and medieval models continued to exercise considerable influence, new forms began to challenge them. The English Reformation banished the saints' lives that dominated the writings of medieval Catholicism, only to replace them with new lives of Protestant martyrs. Novel forms of self-accounting came into existence: from the daily moral self-accounting dictated by strands of Calvinism, to the daily financial self-accounting modelled on the new double-entry book-keeping. This volume shows how the most ostensibly private journals were circulated to build godly communities; how women found new modes of recording and understanding their disrupted lives; how men started to compartmentalize their lives for public and private consumption. The volume doesn't intend to present a strict chronological progression from the medieval to the modern, nor to suggest the triumphant rise of the fact-based historical biography. Instead, it portrays early modern England as a site of multiple, sometimes conflicting possibilities for life-writing, all of which have something to teach us about how the period understood both the concept of a 'life' and what it mean to 'write' a life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191507008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing. The challenges wrought by the upheavals and the sixteenth-century English Reformation and seventeenth-century Civil Wars moulded British and early American life-writing in unique and lasting ways. While classical and medieval models continued to exercise considerable influence, new forms began to challenge them. The English Reformation banished the saints' lives that dominated the writings of medieval Catholicism, only to replace them with new lives of Protestant martyrs. Novel forms of self-accounting came into existence: from the daily moral self-accounting dictated by strands of Calvinism, to the daily financial self-accounting modelled on the new double-entry book-keeping. This volume shows how the most ostensibly private journals were circulated to build godly communities; how women found new modes of recording and understanding their disrupted lives; how men started to compartmentalize their lives for public and private consumption. The volume doesn't intend to present a strict chronological progression from the medieval to the modern, nor to suggest the triumphant rise of the fact-based historical biography. Instead, it portrays early modern England as a site of multiple, sometimes conflicting possibilities for life-writing, all of which have something to teach us about how the period understood both the concept of a 'life' and what it mean to 'write' a life.
Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq. ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby and Son, at Their House, Wellington-street, Strand, on Thursday, April 10, and Twenty-five Following Days ...
Author: Sotheby's (London)
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Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Pages : 674
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Bibliotheca Heberiana ; Catalogue Of The Library Of The Late Richard Heber, Esq
Author: Richard Heber
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Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Pages : 366
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Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber
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Pages : 376
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Pages : 376
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Bibliotheca Heberiana
Author: Richard Heber
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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