Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry / Edition 2

by Isabel Rivers

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415106474
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/08/1994
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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