An Account of the Private Family of Percy ...
Title | An Account of the Private Family of Percy ... PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Percy |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1776 |
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1882-1887
Title | 1882-1887 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1168 |
Release | 1889 |
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The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem
Title | The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Murphy |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2019-08-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1503609294 |
“Meticulously maps the eddies and currents that have defined this vexing poem’s vexed history of neglect, rediscovery, and canonization . . . grippingly unusual.” —Renaissance Quarterly Thomas Wyatt didn’t publish “They Flee from Me.” It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in countless poetry anthologies. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across five hundred turbulent years. Wyatt’s poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history. Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider why anyone would write such a thing in the first place, and why anyone would care to read or remember the person who wrote it. From the deadly, fascinating circles of Henry VIII’s court to the contemporary classroom, The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem also introduces us to a series of worlds. We meet antiquaries, editors, publishers, anthologizers, and critics whose own life stories beckon. And we learn how the poem came to be considered, after many centuries of neglect, a model of the “best” English has to offer and an ideal object of literary study. The result is an exploration of literature in the fine grain of the everyday and its needs: in the classroom, in society, and in the life of nations.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum
Title | Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum PDF eBook |
Author | British Library. Dept. of Manuscripts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1168 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Manuscripts |
ISBN |
Thomas Percy
Title | Thomas Percy PDF eBook |
Author | Bertram H. Davis |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2016-11-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 151280164X |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years ...
Title | Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years ... PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Manuscripts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1170 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 1700-1800
Title | Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 1700-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | M. Smith |
Publisher | Burns & Oates |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
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