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Classical and Christian ideas in English Renaissance poetry : a student's guide

Author: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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"Since its first publication Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential student 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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Isabel Rivers
ISBN: 041510646X 9780415106467 0415106478 9780415106474
OCLC Number: 30516824
Description: vii, 233 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The golden age and the garden of eden --
The pagan gods --
Platonism and neoplatonism --
Stoicism --
Views of history --
Cosmology --
Reformation and counter-reformation --
Protestant theology --
Humanism --
BIblical exegesis and typology --
Theories of poetry --
Allegory --
Numerology.
Responsibility: Isabel Rivers.
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"Since its first publication Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential student 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; and includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix. In this new edition, the bibliographies have been updated to take account of important recent publications in philosophy, religion and Renaissance studies."--BOOK JACKET.

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