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Spenser's International Style

By: David Scott Wilson-Okamura

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Spenser's International Style

By: David Scott Wilson-Okamura

David Scott Wilson-Okamura reframes long-standing questions about Edmund Spenser's style in the wider context of long-term, European trends.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107038200

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9781107038202

Virgil in the Renaissance

By: David Scott Wilson-Okamura

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The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and Ariosto? Which commentators had the most influence? What story, if any, was Virgil's Eclogues supposed to tell? What was the status of his Georgics? Which parts of his epic attracted the most imitators? Building on specialized scholarship of the last hundred years, this book provides a panoramic synthesis of what scholars and poets from across Europe believed they could know about Virgil's life and poetry.

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315

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Cambridge University Press

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1139935550

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9781139935555

Rhyme's Challenge

Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

By: David Caplan

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Rhyme's Challenge

Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

By: David Caplan

Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry -- and everyday life.

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Oxford University Press

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019971410X

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9780199714100

Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims

Classical Receptions in Early New England

By: David A. Lupher

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Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims

Classical Receptions in Early New England

By: David A. Lupher

In Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims David Lupher examines the availability, circulation, and uses of Greek and Roman culture in the earliest period of the British settlement of New England. This book offers the first systematic correction to the dominant assumption that the Separatist settlers of Plymouth Plantation (the so-called “Pilgrims”) were hostile or indifferent to “humane learning”— a belief dating back to their cordial enemy, the May-pole reveler Thomas Morton of Ma-re Mount, whose own eccentric classical negotiations receive a chapter in this book. While there have been numerous studies of the uses of classical culture during the Revolutionary period of colonial North America, the first decades of settlement in New England have been neglected. Utilizing both familiar texts such as William Bradford’s Of Plimmoth Plantation and overlooked archival sources, Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims signals the end of that neglect.

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BRILL

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9004351191

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9789004351196

Virgil in the Renaissance

By: David Scott Wilson-Okamura

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Spenser's International Style

Spenser's International Style

Virgil in the Renaissance

Virgil in the Renaissance

Rhyme's Challenge

Rhyme's Challenge

Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims

Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims

Virgil in the Renaissance

Virgil in the Renaissance

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