2nd Edition
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
By Isabel Rivers
Copyright 1994
244 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It:
- provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance;
- illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas;
- contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them;
- includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.
Preface to the First Edition Introduction: Renaissance Poetry and Modern Readers 1 The Golden Age and the Garden of Eden 2 The Pagan Gods 3 Platonism and Neoplatonism 4 Stoicism 5 Views of History 6 Cosmology 7 Reformation and Counter-Reformation 8 Protestant Theology 9 Humanism 10 Biblical Exegesis and Typology 11 Theories of Poetry 12 Allegory 13 Numerology
Biography
Dr Isabel Rivers is a Fellow and Tutor in English of St Hugh’s College, Oxford.