This concise introduction opens with an overview of the historical and cultural context in which English Renaissance literature was produced and a discussion of its contemporary and subsequent critical reception. Following chapters survey drama, poetry, and prose. Each provides illustrative case stu
Prefaces to Renaissance Literature
โ Scribed by Douglas Bush
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 1965
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 128
- Edition
- Reprint 2013
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
I. HUMANISM AND THE CRITICAL SPIRIT
II. THE CLASSICS AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE
III. ENGLISH POETRY: GOD AND NATURE
IV. ENGLISH POETRY: TIME AND MAN
V. THE ISOLATION OF THE RENAISSANCE HERO
A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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