Mythology and the Renaissance tradition in English poetry

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bush, Douglas, 1896-1983 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, [1963]
Edition:New revised edition.
Series:Norton library ; N187.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English poetry > Classical influences.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mythology in literature.
Renaissance > England.
Poésie anglaise > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Influence littéraire, artistique, etc.
Poésie anglaise > Influence ancienne.
Mythologie dans la littérature.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
English poetry > Early modern.
Renaissance.
Mythologie.
Gedichten.
Engels.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Myths.
Critiques littéraires.
Mythes.
Table of Contents:
  • Classical themes in the middle ages
  • The background of classical mythology in the sixteenth century
  • Myths in earlier Elizabethan verse
  • Ovid old and new
  • Spenser
  • Marlowe: Hero and Leander
  • Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis and Lucrece
  • Drayton: Giles and Phineas Fletcher: William Browne
  • Minor writers
  • Chapman
  • Lyrical verse
  • Translators
  • Allegory and anti-pagan sentiment in the seventeenth century
  • Milton
  • Travesties of classical themes and poems.

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