Cavalier Lyrics
Title | Cavalier Lyrics PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth |
Publisher | London, Austin |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | English poetry |
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The Cavalier Poets
Title | The Cavalier Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Holliday |
Publisher | |
Pages | 642 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | English poetry |
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The Elizabethan Lyric
Title | The Elizabethan Lyric PDF eBook |
Author | John Erskine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 854 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
The Life and Lyrics of Andrew Marvell
Title | The Life and Lyrics of Andrew Marvell PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Craze |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 1979-12-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1349045888 |
Lyric Wonder
Title | Lyric Wonder PDF eBook |
Author | James Biester |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801433139 |
James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style--metaphysical wit and strong lines--as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period. By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the "admirable" style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres. Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event.
The Americana
Title | The Americana PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Converse Beach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 920 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
A History of English Literature
Title | A History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | William Allan Neilson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |