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基本説明
This book combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry.
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Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. 
Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres
Poems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution
Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare
Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare's major poems - Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint- in the context of his dramatic career
Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler
Contents
Introduction 1
 The Pleasures and Uses of Sixteenth-Century Poetry 
 Part I 1500-1558. Reading Early Tudor Poetry: Henrician, Edwardian, Marian 19
 1 Voice 21
 The Poetic Style of Character: Plain and Eloquent Speaking 
 2 Perception 43
 The Crisis of the Reformation, or, What the Poet Sees: Self, Beloved, God 
 3 World 66
 The Poet's Ecology of Place: Sky, Sea, Soil 
 4 Form 90
 The Idea of a Poem: Elegy, Pastoral, Sonnet, Satire, Epic 
 5 Career 115
 The Role of the Poet in Society: Skelton, Wyatt, and Surrey 
 Part II 1558-1600. Reading Elizabethan Poetry 139
 6 Voice 141
 The Poetic Style of Character: From Plain Eloquence to the Metaphysical Sublime
 7 Perception 163
 What the Poet Sees, and the Advent of Modern Personage: Desire, Idolatry, Transport, Partnership
 8 World 185
 The Poet's Ecology of Place: Cosmos, Colony, Country 
 9 Form 208
 Fictions of Poetic Kind: Pastoral, Sonnet, Epic, Minor Epic, Hymn
 10 Career 231
 The Role of the Poet in Society: Whitney, Spenser, and Marlowe
 Part III A Special Case 255
 11 Shakespeare: Voice, Perception, World, Form, Career 257
 Conclusion 280
 Retrospective Poetry: Donne and the End of Sixteenth-Century Poetry 
 Bibliography 288
 Index 323

              
              
              
              

