The Experience of Poetry
From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 March 2019
- ISBN 9780198833154
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages462 pages
- Size 238x165x28 mm
- Weight 910 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 37 Illustrations 0
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Short description:
An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture.
MoreLong description:
Was the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms play a part in the lives of hearers and readers in Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and Britain during the Renaissance?
In tackling these questions, this book first examines the evidence for the performance of the Iliad and the Odyssey and of Ancient Greek lyric poetry, the impact of the invention of writing on Alexandrian verse, the performances of poetry that characterized Ancient Rome, and the private and public venues for poetic experience in Late Antiquity. 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.
It is bracing to follow a prominent senior scholar in his exploration of so many centuries—millennia encountered not with any ex cathedra jadedness but with open enthusiasm that should immediately engage readers at every academic level.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: Ancient Greece
Homeric Greece: Courts and Singers
Archaic to Classical Greece: Festivals and Rhapsodes
Classical Greece to Ptolemaic Alexandria: Writers and Readers
PART TWO: Ancient Rome and Late Antiquity
Ancient Rome: The Republic and the Augustan Age
Ancient Rome: The Empire after Augustus
Late Antiquity: Latin and Greek, Private, Public, Popular
PART THREE: The Middle Ages
Early Medieval Poetry: Vernacular Versifying
The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Performing Genres
Lyric, Romance, and Alliterative Verse in Fourteenth-Century England
Chaucer, Gower, and Fifteenth-Century Poetry in English
PART FOUR: The English Renaissance
Early Tudor Poetry: Courtliness and Print
Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Poetry: The Circulation of Verse
Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Poetry: The Idea of the Poet
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