Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 445 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; The Experience Of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners To Shakespeare's Readers; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; List Of Illustrations; Note; Introduction; Poetry As Experience; The History Of Poetic Experience; Poetry, Drama, Music; Pleasure; Evidence; Part I: Ancient Greece; 1: Homeric Greece: Courts And Singers; Poetry's Beginnings, And Before; Homeric Song; The Singers Of The Odyssey; A Performance Of Epic Song; Varieties Of Song; Hesiod; 2: Archaic To Classical Greece: Festivals And Rhapsodes; Seventh-Century Performances: Homeric Hymns And Recited Verse; Iambics And Elegiacs |
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From Epic Song To Rhapsodic Recitalsocrates And The Rhapsode; Fixing The Text; Philosophy Versus Poetry; 3: Classical Greece To Ptolemaic Alexandria: Writers And Readers; The Impact Of Writing; Reading Written Verse; The Hellenistic Culture Of Alexandria; Writing And Performing Hellenistic Verse; Callimachus's Fifth Hymn And The Poem On The Page; Part Ii: Ancient Rome And Late Antiquity; 4: Ancient Rome: The Republic And The Augustan Age; The Early Republic: The Beginnings Of Latin Poetry; The Late Republic: Catullus And The Convivium; The Augustan Age: Performing Virgil |
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The Augustan Age: Horace, Ovid, Propertius5: Ancient Rome: The Empire After Augustus; Recitatio And Revision; Pliny The Younger And Recitatio; Critics Of Recitatio; Other Varieties Of Performance; 6: Late Antiquity: Latin And Greek, Private, Public, Popular; The Changing Context: Books, Language, Poetry; Private Reading: Ausonius; Professional Performance: Claudian; Popular Performance: Latin And Greek Accentual Hymnody; Part Iii: The Middle Ages; 7: Early Medieval Poetry: Vernacular Versifying; The Rise Of The Vernaculars; The Versifying Cowherd: Bede And Caedmon |
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The Eighth And Ninth Centuriesthe Old English Scop And Gleoman; 8: The Twelfth And Thirteenth Centuries: Performing Genres; The Chanson De Geste; The Troubadour Lyric; Other French Genres; The Germanic Languages; Lyric Poetry In Italy: Writing To Be Read; Dante And The Vita Nuova; Poetry In Early Middle English; 9: Lyric, Romance, And Alliterative Verse In Fourteenth-Century England; Fourteenth-Century Poetic Transmission; Popular Romance; Lyric Verse; The Alliterative Revival; 10: Chaucer, Gower, And Fifteenth-Century Poetry In English; Geoffrey Chaucer: Manuscripts And Shorter Poems |
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Troilus And Criseydethe Canterbury Tales; The Fifteenth Century; Part Iv: The English Renaissance; 11: Early Tudor Poetry: Courtliness And Print; Continental Developments; English Poetry In Print; The Court Of Henry Vi I I : Early Years; The Court Of Henry Vi I I : Later Years; Poetry Collections; Poetry In The 1560S And 1570S; 12: Late Elizabethan And Early Jacobean Poetry: The Circulation Of Verse; The Question Of Elizabethan Poetic Performance; Reading And Reciting Poetry; Manuscript Circulation; Poetry In Print; Anthologies, Miscellanies, And Commonplace Books; Paratexts And Marginalia |
Summary |
An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 03, 2019) |
Subject |
Performance poetry -- History and criticism
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Performance poetry -- Social aspects
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Poetry, Ancient -- History and criticism
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Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism
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Poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Performance poetry
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Poetry
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Poetry, Ancient
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Poetry, Medieval
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191873898 |
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0191873896 |
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9780192569578 |
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0192569570 |
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