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- English
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Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
- By the same author
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction: Renaissance Poetry and Modern Readers
- 1 The Golden Age and the Garden of Eden
- 2 The Pagan Gods
- 3 Platonism and Neoplatonism
- 4 Stoicism
- 5 Views of History
- 6 Cosmology
- 7 Reformation and Counter-Reformation
- 8 Protestant Theology
- 9 Humanism
- 10 Biblical Exegesis and Typology
- 11 Theories of Poetry
- 12 Allegory
- 13 Numerology
- A Note on the Division of Historical Periods
- Abbreviations
- References
- Further Reading
- Bibliographical Appendix