The complete poems of Sir Philip Sidney

The complete poems of Sir Philip Sidney
Author: Alexander Balloch Grosart
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 338554548X

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Writing After Sidney

Writing After Sidney
Author: Gavin Alexander
Publisher:
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199591121

'Writing After Sidney' examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney, author of the 'Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella' and 'The Defence of Poesy', and the influential writer of the Elizabethan period.

Sidney: The Critical Heritage

Sidney: The Critical Heritage
Author: Dr Martin Garrett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134878613

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England

Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England
Author: Christopher Warley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2005-07-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139444409

Why were sonnet sequences popular in Renaissance England? In this study, Christopher Warley suggests that sonneteers created a vocabulary to describe, and to invent, new forms of social distinction before an explicit language of social class existed. The tensions inherent in the genre - between lyric and narrative, between sonnet and sequence - offered writers a means of reconceptualizing the relation between individuals and society, a way to try to come to grips with the broad social transformations taking place at the end of the sixteenth century. By stressing the struggle over social classification, the book revises studies that have tied the influence of sonnet sequences to either courtly love or to Renaissance individualism. Drawing on Marxist aesthetic theory, it offers detailed examinations of sequences by Lok, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. It will be valuable to readers interested in Renaissance and genre studies, and post-Marxist theories of class.

Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England

Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England
Author: Michelle O'Callaghan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108869939

The printed poetry anthologies first produced in sixteenth-century England have long been understood as instrumental in shaping the history of English poetry. This book offers a fresh approach to this history by turning attention to the recreative properties of these books, both in the sense of making again, of crafting and recrafting, and of poetry as a pleasurable pastime. The model of materiality employed extends from books-as-artefacts to their embodiedness - their crafted, performative, and expressive capacities. Publishers invariably advertised the recreational uses of anthologies, locating these books in early modern performance cultures in which poetry was read, silently and in company, sometimes set to music, and re-crafted into other forms. Engaging with studies of material cultures, including work on craft, households, and soundscapes, Crafting Poetry Anthologies argues for a domestic Renaissance in which anthologies travelled across social classes, shaping recreational cultures that incorporated men and women in literary culture.

Making the Miscellany

Making the Miscellany
Author: Megan Heffernan
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-03-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0812252802

In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Heffernan's focus is not only the material organization of printed poetry, but also how those conventions and innovations of arrangement contributed to vernacular poetic craft, the consolidation of ideals of individual authorship, and centuries of literary history. The arrangement of printed compilations contains a largely unstudied and undertheorized archive of poetic form, Heffernan argues. In an evolving system of textual transmission, compilers were experimenting with how to contain individual poems within larger volumes. By paying attention to how they navigated and shaped the exchanges between poems and their organization, she reveals how we can witness the basic power of imaginative writing over the material text. Making the Miscellany is also a study of how this history of textual design has been differently told by the distinct disciplines of bibliography or book history and literary studies, each of which has handled—and obscured—the formal qualities of early modern poetry compilations and the practices that produced them. Revisiting these editorial and critical approaches, this book recovers a moment when compilers, poets, and readers were alert to a poetics of organization that exceeded the limits of the individual poem.