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The Renaissance epic and the oral past [electronic resource] / Anthony Welch.

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This volume explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. 16th- and 17th-century poets, Anthony Welch argues came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors.

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Welch, Anthony, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Series:Yale studies in English.
Subjects:
Epic poetry, European > History and criticism.
Epic literature, European > Classical influences.
European poetry > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
European literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Epic poetry, European.
European literature.
European poetry > Renaissance.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Tasso's silent lyre
  • The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser
  • Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale
  • Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler
  • Milton's lament
  • Epic opera
  • Coda: The singer withdraws.

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