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The Renaissance epic and the oral past / Anthony Welch.

Title
The Renaissance epic and the oral past / Anthony Welch.
Author
Welch, Anthony, 1975-
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.

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Description
viii, 260 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Yale studies in English
Uniform Title
  • University press scholarship online.
  • Yale studies in English
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-245) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780300178869 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0300178867 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012016208
OCLC
785865139
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library