Grief and English Renaissance Elegy - Couverture rigide

Pigman III, G. W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521268710 ISBN 13 : 9780521268714

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1985

Synopsis

Explores the changing attitude of sixteenth century poets towards funeral poems.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less pressing and persistent. The shift is part of a wider cultural change which has escaped recognition: the emergence of a more compassionate attitude towards the process of mourning. In charting the development of elegy this book analyses poems by Surrey, Spenser, Jonson, Henry King and Milton, and also surveys a wide range of forgotten verse, both English and neo-Latin, as well as letter-writing handbooks and moral-theological tracts. The book culminates in a detailed study of the most famous elegy in the language, Milton's Lycidas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521268710
• ISBN 13: 9780521268714
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie