Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry - Softcover

Rivers, Isabel

 
9780415106474: Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Isabel Rivers is a Fellow and Tutor in English of St Hugh's College, Oxford.

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A new introduction and a fully updated bibliography make the second edition of this established text an indispensable resource for students and teachers of English poetry.

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