The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers Derek Attridge

The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198833154,0198833156

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• ISBN-10: 0192569589
• ISBN-13: 9780192569585
• Author: Derek Attridge

It moves on to deal with medieval verse, exploring the oral traditions that spread across Europe in the vernacular languages, the place of manuscript transmission, the shift from roll to codex and from papyrus to parchment, and the changing audiences for poetry. A final part investigates the experience of poetry in the English Renaissance, from the manuscript verse of Henry VIII’s court to the anthologies and collections of the late Elizabethan era. Among the topics considered in this part are the importance of the printed page, the continuing significance of manuscript circulation, the performance of poetry in pageants and progresses, and the appearance of poets on the Elizabethan stage. In tracking both continuity and change across these many centuries, the book throws fresh light on the role and importance of poetry in western culture.

Table contents:

PART ONE: Ancient Greece

1. Homeric Greece: Courts and Singers

2. Archaic to Classical Greece: Festivals and Rhapsodes

3. Classical Greece to Ptolemaic Alexandria: Writers and Readers

PART TWO: Ancient Rome and Late Antiquity

4. Ancient Rome: The Republic and the Augustan Age

5. Ancient Rome: The Empire after Augustus

6. Late Antiquity: Latin and Greek, Private, Public, Popular

PART THREE: The Middle Ages

7. Early Medieval Poetry: Vernacular Versifying

8. The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Performing Genres

9. Lyric, Romance, and Alliterative Verse in Fourteenth-Century England

10. Chaucer, Gower, and Fifteenth-Century Poetry in English

PART FOUR: The English Renaissance

11. Early Tudor Poetry: Courtliness and Print

12. Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Poetry: The Circulation of Verse

13. Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Poetry: The Idea of the Poet Bibliography

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