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Author Attridge, Derek, author.

Title The experience of poetry : from Homer's listeners to Shakespeare's readers / Derek Attridge
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019
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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
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
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
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
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
Performance poetry -- Social aspects
Poetry, Ancient -- History and criticism
Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism
Poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Performance poetry
Poetry
Poetry, Ancient
Poetry, Medieval
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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