Mythology and the Renaissance tradition in English poetry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, W. W. Norton [1963]Edition: New rev. edDescription: xiii, 372 p. 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.309
LOC classification:
  • PR508.M9 B8 1963
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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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PR508.M9B8 1963 1 Available 33710000485941

Bibliography: p. [340]-353.

WAR, NEWBERY,

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.