Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry - Softcover

Rivers, Isabel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415106478 ISBN 13: 9780415106474

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

This second edition of Isabel Rivers' seminal and much loved text will be a boon to teachers and students of poetry. Rivers guides the reader around classical and Christian ideas, illustrating how Renaissance poetry draws on these ideas and suggesting where the reader can find out more. A new introduction and fully updated bibliography make this an indispensible tool for the study of English poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415106478
• ISBN 13: 9780415106474
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 244