Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Eric Weiskott
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-15 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were w
Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Marissa Nicosia
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative f
The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Roberta Frank
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-01 - Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

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In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet’s workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their
What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?
Language: en
Pages: 561
Authors: Cristina Maria Cervone
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-30 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twe
The Oxford History of Poetry in English
Language: en
Pages: 668
Authors: Helen Cooper
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through con