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MELODIOUS TEARS OEM C

By Kay

MELODIOUS TEARS OEM C

By Kay

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The funeral elegy is in some important ways the quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book demonstrates how it developed into a kind of laboratory in which writers could put theories of composition into practice. The hospitality of elegy to different styles and modes together with its primary formal obligation to fit the poem decorously to the subject, gave a special value to ingenuity, to virtuosity. Melodious Tears charts the history of the elegyfrom the time in the mid-sixteenth century when it was exclusively the province of professional writers, the balladeers and chroniclers, up to the 163s, by which time the fashion for the vernacular elegy had spread throughout the literate classes. Detailed studies of the works of major elegists,particularly Spenser, Sidney, Donne, and Milton are combined with full examination of the range and variety of elegies generated in response to the deaths of Sidney (1586), Queen Elizabeth I (163), and Prince Henry (1612). A series of appendices contains texts of a number of elegies which survive only in manuscript.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
1990-10-01
Publication Date:
2010-01-21
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198117892
ISBN13:
9780198117896
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[email protected]
Weight:
594 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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