Title The Renaissance epic and the oral past / Anthony Welch

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource Series Yale studies in English Yale studies in English. Contents Tasso's silent lyre -- The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser -- Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale -- Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler -- Milton's lament -- Epic opera -- Coda: The singer withdraws Summary This volume explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. 16th- and 17th-century poets, Anthony Welch argues came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Epic poetry, European -- History and criticism Epic literature, European -- Classical influences European poetry -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism European literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. POETRY -- European -- General. Epic poetry, European European literature European poetry -- Renaissance Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2012016208 ISBN 9780300188998 0300188994

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