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The Shaping of English Poetry

Essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser

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This collection of essays is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from to Spenser. The native alliterative tradition of England is represented by its final flowering in two essays on and three on . The renewal of English letters in the fourteenth century, inspired by continental models in French and Italian, is represented by four essays on Chaucer. The poetic achievement of these three medieval masters remains unmatched until Spenser announces himself in a third great age in the history of English poetry and this is represented by three essays on the first three books of . Spenser’s indebtedness to Langland and Chaucer, and his philosophical conservatism in drawing on the thought of Aristotle and the tradition of medieval commentary surrounding the works of Aristotle, ensure that the tradition of English poetry in the Renaissance is securely rooted in its medieval inheritance.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-03911-956-1 / 978-3039119561 / 9783039119561

Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 10.02.2010

Seiten: 299

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Gerald Morgan

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