William Webbe, 'A Discourse of English Poetry' (1586) - Couverture souple

Webbe, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781881251 ISBN 13 : 9781781881255

Editeur : Texts and Translations, 2016

Synopsis

William Webbe's A Discourse of English Poetry (1586) is the first printed treatise exclusively dedicated to devising a canon for the definition of poetry in England. Traditionally eclipsed by the academic centrality of Philip Sidney's The Defence of Poesy (c. 1580; published 1595) and George Puttenham's The Art of English Poesy (1589), this is the first critical edition of the essay in over a hundred years. This volume presents a modern-spelling text and a critical apparatus derived from the collation of the first printed document with subsequent editions. The explanatory notes incorporate recent research on Elizabethan literary theory and aim at substantiating Webbe's contribution within the academic and literary spheres of sixteenth-century England. A Discourse offers an enlightening testimony of the main concerns of Tudor humanism, and it also sheds light on the ideological foundations of the acclaimed quantitative reformation of metre launched by Sidney, Harvey, Spenser and other contemporary scholars.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sonia Hernández-Santano is Tenured Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Huelva (Spain).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texts and Translations
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781881251
• ISBN 13: 9781781881255
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 178
• Éditeur: Hernández-Santano Sonia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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