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Green thoughts, green shades : essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric

By Post , Jonathan F. S

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0-520-21455-2, 9780520214552, 9780520227521, 0-520-22752-2, 9780520935716, 0520935713, 9781417522866, 1417522860, 9781597346429, 159734642X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1264451 bytes)
Pages
300\316
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
1500-1700 -- History and criticism. POETRY -- Englamerikansk litteratur. English poetry.English poetry -- Early modernIrishScottishWelsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.

Description

Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the greatest lyric poets writing in English during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Written by people who spend much of their time thinking in verse and about verse, these original essays herald the return of the early modern lyric as crucial to understanding the present moment of poetry in the United States. This work provides fascinating insights into what today's poets find of special interest in their forebears. In addition, these discussions shed light on the contributors' own poetry and offer compelling clues to how the poetry of the past continues to inform that of the present.

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