Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781
Terry, RichardAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2001.
Exploring how the English literary past was made, this book charts how antiquarians have unearthed the raw materials of the British tradition and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Exploring how the English literary past was made, this book charts how antiquarians have unearthed the raw materials of the British tradition and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Literature': The Morphology of a Concept 11 -- 2. The Progress of Poesy: Making an English Canon 35 -- 3. Authorial Dictionaries and the Cult of Fame 63 -- 4. Myths of Origin: The Canon of Pre-Chaucerian Poetry 93 -- 5. Dryden and the Idea of a Literary Tradition 142 -- 6. Teaching English Literature 169 -- 7. Johnson's Lives of the Poets 216 -- 8. Making the Female Canon 252 -- 9. Classicists and Gothicists: The Division of the Estate 286.
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