Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
epub | 484.31 KB | English | SBN : Rivers, Isabel; | 1994 | Taylor & Francis Group | Page: 244

About Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry :

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.

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